Oswald Chambers Quotes
Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
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So, I get a kick out of working with the media.
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I've always made sequels, even when I was making Super 8 movies if the audience liked it.
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Ascetics and fakirs come to mitigate human suffering; to heal us and lead us on the path. They put up with criticism; they go through many worldly trials. Some of them have even become martyrs for our sake. But they have done all this with a smile and with gratitude to God. Hence sacrifice is a great virtue.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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I'm not one to take revenge. If someone does something wrong to me I leave it in the hands of the universe to take care of that person.
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As I matriculate my way down the field of life, I will never forget this moment and you wonderful people who helped make this day possible.
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By the time I left school, I had a lot of tenacity.
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I hate mules. I hate the noise when someone walks with mules. Clomp, clomp, clomp. I think it's very not chic. I don't even like a flip-flop. I don't like this noise.
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You gotta live life before you can talk about it. Sometimes when things don't work out in life, they work out on stage.
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You learn something when you don't play well, and I figure that helping people, it makes me very, very happy.
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I am grateful to theatre for making me what I am today. But it's not like theatre is my first love. I am equally attached to cinema, which is, actually, a child of theatre, since it borrows heavily from it.
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High school golf, college golf and the decade that followed all come back to me now as one big raucous, goofy gangsome.
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Negroes are in no mood to shoulder guns for democracy abroad while they are denied democracy here at home.
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If I was sad or afraid, I would sit in a corner and sing. If I was happy I would jump into the middle of the room and sing. It was how I expressed my emotions.
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I am endlessly inspired by both the tenderness that can exist between two people and the excitement of falling in love. I'm very fortunate that I've been able to explore that in novels, a television show, some early development film projects, and essays about my own life.
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I took a Ferrari under the 405 freeway. We took rent-a-cars through the desert. That was fun.
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But when you have bad governance, of course, these resources are destroyed: The forests are deforested, there is illegal logging, there is soil erosion. I got pulled deeper and deeper and saw how these issues become linked to governance, to corruption, to dictatorship.
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I always did think that when I turned 40, I'd start coming into my own.
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There is a latent anger in a lot of people that went to boarding school at an early age. I was eight. And I loved it over the five years, but I think the adjustments for eight-year-olds are a lot. And I think it informs who you are for a long, long time.
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My faith in the proposition that each man should do precisely as he pleases with all which is exclusively his own lies at the foundation of the sense of justice there is in me.
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There is nothing so great or ideally beautiful as the action of God in the human soul. If we knew how to discern it in ourselves, our lives would be transformed. If we could see it in others we would love even more him who is always in our midst, who acts in us, and who works marvels - these spiritual renewals that we shall understand only in eternity.
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I never tell my boyfriend that I'm busy when I'm not. No matter how effective they are, cheap techniques like that just don't agree with me. So it's always okay, it's always all right. In my opinion the surest way to hook a man is to be as open with him as possible.
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Prayer is the supreme activity of all that is noblest in our personality, and the essential nature of prayer is faith.
