Oswald Chambers Quotes

It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes.

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There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.
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It's for scientists to lay out the data and lay out what they think, and then it's for the public to make up its own mind. We don't live in a priesthood where some small group imposes its views on other people - that's not the way that science works, and it's not the way a democratic society should work.
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I am very lucky because when I come back home, I have a completely normal life. I can relax, playing golf, fishing - doing what I want. I know when I finish a tournament, I am going to relax at home.
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Advertising is what you do when you can't go see somebody. That's all it is.
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My feeling is, I do a lot of low-budget films. I don't do low-budget acting. I have no interest in just goofballing my way through, thinking, 'Ah, no one's ever going to see this anyway.'
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I could go out to five parties a day if I wanted to. I don't. I have attachments to my wife and kids - and about 20 pieces of art.
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I'm not a collector of clothes. I've got clothes to wear.
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Research programmes, besides their negative heuristic, are also characterized by their positive heuristic.
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We are not saints, but we have kept our appointment. How many people can boast as much?
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I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I tend to make low-budget movies but, yeah, I make more money than I ever thought I would make.
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You learn to control every aspect of your muscles, your face, your toes, your fingernails. And that is how you tell a story, through movement.
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This Islam business kidnapped me.
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I love to see a woman in a sexy, strappy sandal no matter what. It just looks beautiful.
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Here at this site, Solyndra expects to make enough solar panels each year to generate 500 megawatts of electricity. And over the lifetime of this expanded facility, that could be like replacing as many as eight coal-fired power plants.
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I always wake up 10 minutes before I have to be anywhere.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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One knows less about one's own destiny than about anything else on earth.
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I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.
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Why do people think that if you don't dress up, others will appreciate your beauty more - that style will somehow emanate from you? It's rubbish. If you dress up it helps your personality to emerge - if you choose well
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I just think that the older you get, the more you appreciate the responsibility of politics.
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Gambling: A sure way to get nothing from something.
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It is inbred in us that we have to do exceptional things for God: but we have not. We have to be exceptional in the ordinary things, to be holy in mean streets, among mean people, and this is not learned in five minutes.