Oswald Chambers Quotes
The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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It's difficult to talk about, you know, my inadequacies, my inability to stay sober when I'm a relatively bright man and I've had a lot of great blessings and a lot of great opportunities.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I think I felt compelled in a way because if I hadn't written the part, I never would have been offered the part. There are at least 10 guys who would have been offered the part before me.
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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What clients are really interested in is honesty, plus a baseline of competence.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I just want to do my job.
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When I'm dancing, I don't know where the confidence comes from, but I just pretend I'm someone else, I think, and then I go out and dance.
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I never thought 'Stairway to Heaven' was a long song. I loved how there was this part and then there was another part that was completely different.
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That is why, as soon as I felt a real attraction for my first passion which was the motorcycle, and in spite of the danger it could represent, they encouraged me.
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If you look at the very best presidents, the most effective presidents, they were always decent salespeople. Ronald Reagan was an extremely effective salesman, very tuned to the people he was selling to, very clear in what he was selling, very resilient and buoyant.
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Unless we provide consequences for activities and actions that are wrong, we are not going to get any truth.
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I think black Americans expect too much from individual black Americans in terms of changing the status quo.
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OS X is sweet: it's simple and intuitive, and I think GNOME shares a lot of values with it.
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I didn't record any additional dialogue for this CD, they are excerpts pulled from existing episodes.
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Look at Islam in a rational manner and without demagoguery or emotion. It is the leading religion of the world with 1.5 billion followers.
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On the show, we are not trying to get people to eat their vegetables; we are not trying to get people to become Democrats. We are basically trying to encourage people to get involved with public life so that politics isn't left to the wealthy and privileged.
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I write for myself, and my goal is bringing that world and that experience of black Americans to life on the stage and giving it a space there.
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Thus have the gods spun the thread for wretched mortals: that they live in grief while they themselves are without cares; for two jars stand on the floor of Zeus of the gifts which he gives, one of evils and another of blessings.
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One of my favorite things to do is sit around and listen to old records... You're forced to listen to the whole thing. And it's so cool digging through the bins trying to find them. I get giddy about records.
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I think all artists are looking for a subject or are sometimes unsure of their subject, but immigrant artists bring another culture to that and they bring also the place where the original culture meets the new culture.
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The test of the life of a saint is not success, but faithfulness in human life as it actually is.
