Oswald Chambers Quotes
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We have too many high-sounding words, and too few actions that correspond with them.
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I was the first one in my family to go away to college. I came from a small town where there was no guidance in the high school at all. It was a mill town, and I never knew anyone who made their living from the arts. When you did go away to college, you went away to be something - an engineer, or a teacher, or a chemist.
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I've always enjoyed making people laugh. But in order for me to be funny, I have to get ticked off about something.
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I feel sometimes that I'm in a constant state of being lost in translation, and I guess that why I write songs.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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Hip-hop is so much about character and caricature that people just see you as a character. Very rarely are you flesh and bone to people.
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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I grew up in New York City - I grew up surrounded by every sound that you imagine can come from a New Yorker. All of the different boroughs and all of the different sounds.
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I am just an artiste, and I like to explore new avenues.
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You have to turn the noise off a little bit. Fortunately, I'm not really on social media. I've been able to live in a bit of a black hole.
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Each day, you can awake and focus on small, easy goals you can accomplish in the short term - goals that, over time, will lead you to your long-term goal.
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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We never take people seriously when they are alive, but once they are gone, we always think that we should have treated them better.
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I am unjust, but I can strive for justice. My life's unkind, but I can vote for kindness. I, the unloving, say life should be lovely. I, that am blind, cry out against my blindness.
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Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.
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Don't you want to know what's real and what's not? I remember when I was a kid, you know, this whole Cold War thing. They had us scared of the Russians. So, it's almost like, what's real and what's not?
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After a hit show is over, you soon realize this is a very tough business ... brutally tough. But I'm a better actor and I have more gravitas than I had at 24 with bleached-blonde hair.
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Hopeless are those who suffers the curse of heaven-so be hopeful.
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President Skroob: What the hell, it works on Star Trek!
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In essence, leaders are people who 'walk ahead,' people genuinely committed to deep changes, in themselves and in their organizations.
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Beware of anything that competes with your loyalty to Jesus Christ.
