Oswald Chambers Quotes
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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I need instant gratification.
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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My life has been devoted to the upliftment of the Filipino by reestablishing his identity and dignity.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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I'm not usually attracted to big-budget American films.
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Most people who have encountered mercury have done so after breaking a mercury thermometer. And many of us who saw the liquid balls of mercury scatter across a floor or countertop considered the element the most beautiful on the periodic table.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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It is a mistake to fancy that horror is associated inextricably with darkness, silence, and solitude.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I think growing up in New York, you see so much at such a young age, there's no bubble to escape into.
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I'm not a best-seller, but through translations, I've accumulated some money.
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I do know that detachment is important. A surgeon can't be weeping into the open wound.
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Don't romanticise your 'vocation.' You can either write good sentences or you can't. There is no 'writer's lifestyle.' All that matters is what you leave on the page.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I think my style as far as vocal delivery and even down to the pronunciation of certain words is so deliberate.
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My grandmother made sure that I went to church every Sunday. And she'd come over and pick us boys up, and we would go to the Nazarene church. And back then, that was about as close to heaven as I ever got, because just the time to be able to spend with her, and she was very, very religious.
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I have a terrible habit of shopping after I go to the gym or hitting eBay.
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Stay focused. Talk about things that’ll matter to the people, you know? It’s the economy, stupid.
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I believe in freedom for everyone, not just the black man.
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God can never make us wine if we object to the fingers He uses to crush us with.
