Oswald Chambers Quotes
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The second I met Zac, I thought he was a really cool guy. It's hard not to have chemistry with someone who is so attractive.
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I've always had an affinity for the fashion industry - I've always been drawn to it. But I grew up in Calgary in Canada, which, being a fairly isolated city, is not particularly known for having anything to do with fashion.
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I try to do the right thing at the right time. They may just be little things, but usually they make the difference between winning and losing.
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My friends tell me I have an intimacy problem. But they don't really know me.
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I know what I look like - a weird, sad clown puppet. I'm fine with that.
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When I fell for Johnny Galecki, we both knew immediately that we had this connection, and that was it.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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By asking a novel question that you don't know the answer to, you discover whether you can formulate a way of finding the answer, and you stretch your own mind, and very often you learn something new.
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Everybody is improving but I am improving slowly, which seemingly widens our distance.
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I would rather lose a good earring than be caught without make-up.
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I have moved to a smaller house in Paris, and I don't fancy having so much staff now.
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I buy so much fake jewelry, it's funny. It's not real. I don't wear real diamonds or anything.
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If I take a less defensive tone, I'd admit that I couldn't write today a very jazzy, contemporary look at America as I did in 1979 in States of Desire.
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Meditation is difficult for many people because their thoughts are always on some distant object or place. One form of meditation is to label the thought as it appears and then choose to let it go.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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I can't even imagine life without music!
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I really can't believe what a state the Pyramids are in. I thought they had flat rendered sides, but when you get up close, you see how they are just giant boulders balanced on top of each other, like a massive game of Jenga that has got out of hand.
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The U.S. along with China, Japan, South Korea and Russia has an important role to play in containing North Korea's nuclear ambitions and exerting all the influence we can possibly exert.
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We are in a bit of a policy box and it's going to require us being willing to give up one of the two, which is it's okay to take on more deficits but lets put in some massive spending. Alternatively to say, 'we're going to go through structural unemployment for a while because we want to address deficits.'
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The thing I'm particularly interested in is natural history. In its heyday, the mid- and late-nineteenth century, when people were going out and gathering the first huge caches of data and trying to understand what was living and growing everywhere, there was such a sense of freshness to that pursuit. It's very exciting.
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That life had been one without excitement, with no adventure. It had been too safe. All the elements that made it up were right there before his eyes, and nothing new could ever be expected. It was like, he had once thought, a little plastic boat that would sail on forever, without incident, until it finally sank, which would be a secret relief to all.
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Rewards and punishments are the lowest form of education.
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Philadelphians continue to benefit every day from the flow of federal dollars to improve our infrastructure and create jobs.
Chaka Fattah -
I cannot give up my will - I must exercise it, putting it into action.
