Oswald Chambers Quotes
When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.
Quotes to Explore
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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I wish there was a painter who could paint as well as Ted Williams could hit.
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When you've won a gold medal and you're at the top of your sport, everyone's trying to beat you. I find that incredibly motivating.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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I have got to the point in my life when a lot of people I know have died or are dying, so I realise that somewhere outside the pearly gates is a queue, shuffling nearer and nearer to the celestial box office.
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When I got out of high school, I started breaking out. I tried everything from A to Z as far as seeing doctors and getting prescriptions. I even did home remedies, and I had no luck. A fan gave me Proactiv, and it cleared my skin, but there were too many steps. I lose everything, and I lost one of the products. My acne started to come back.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I already have a lot of experience, but the best is yet to come.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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With relationships, I've been through a lot of different situations with different people, and I write about it.
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The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
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But all bubbles have a way of bursting or being deflated in the end.
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I like writers who seem to write because they have to. You get the feeling of this burning desire to tell a story. I find it in Peter Carey, Nicola Barker, Ali Smith and David Foster Wallace.
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Two hundred channel choices in most homes certainly gives you the world of choice. And so slicing it, dicing it, and offering someone their favorite thing - by the way, if it's not good enough, make it yourself and post it.
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When I'm working on a novel of my own, I try to read mostly nonfiction, although sometimes I break down and peek at something else.
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It is an art to have so much judgment as to apparel a lie well, to give it a good dressing.
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But then, I just decided to get off my lazy butt and take advantage of the L.A. weather.
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It is one of the consolations of philosophy that the benefit of showing how to dispense with a concept does not hinge on dispensing with it.
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When we become advocates of a creed, something dies; we do not believe God, we only believe our belief about Him.
