Oswald Chambers Quotes
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People think that celebs make a lot more money than we do. We look for bargains and we do a lot of stuff on our own.
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As for advice for aspiring authors, the best I can give is to be brave. It sounds like a simple enough thing, but it's not. Rejection is such an integral part of this journey, and it never goes away.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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I've raised Michael. I changed his diapers when he was little.
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Elves are cool, man.
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I resent ever being stereotyped.
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I hate being asked how I met my husband and very personal questions like that. I don't like that. People are too nosey. Intelligent questions I like, but sometimes people ask such silly, dopey ones.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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Ever since happiness heard your name, it has been running through the streets trying to find you.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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It's true: a lot of sportspeople really struggle to find something to do when they finish. It tips them into all sorts of strange things. With ex-footballers, it's really scary. I think 70% of them get divorced within five years. It's hard. You go from being really famous to not that famous. Your salary drops through the floor.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Easy is to occupy a place in a telephone book. Difficult is to occupy someone's heart; know that you're really loved.
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I've turned down twentysomething million dollars for movies.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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I don't like people who are just takers.
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I want to go to dinner with Oprah! Who doesn't?
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I am using soybean based ink, which is recyclable.
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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The whole government publicity situation has everybody in the news business almost in despair, with half a dozen agencies following different lines.
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When God gives a vision, transact business on that line, no matter what it costs.
