Oswald Chambers Quotes
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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I see my role as a scholar announcing that women's feelings of unworthiness and insecurity often may be traced to training in a male-oriented religion, and I'm trying to investigate a richer spiritual life for both sexes.
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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You know, I'm an African-American quarterback. That may scare a lot of people because they – they haven't seen nothing that they can compare me to.
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I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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It's time to face facts: Most people stop being environmentalists when they sit down to eat.
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I love Bob Altman. I always admired him so much because I always thought he was a genuine voice.
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Show me an Irishman who can't tell a story – I don't think they exist.
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There are many ways of showing your protest and discontent without the actions of Kremlin.
Garry Kasparov -
I studied the lives of jazz singers who would tour Europe, and... what I learned was life was big ride for them. They'd seen the dark side of humanity... but touring the world playing jazz, it was a truly carefree way of living. A great escapism, if you like.
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When I was 13 or 14, my mother used to gift me books that I was dying to read. Those are my most memorable birthday gifts.
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The poor and minorities are disproportionately both crime's perpetrators and its victims. People are saddened when this happens but not surprised.
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An ordinary kitten will ask more questions than any five-year-old.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I think there's something really poetic about using nuclear power to propel us to the stars, because the stars are giant fusion reactors. They're giant nuclear cauldrons in the sky.
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I sat there with everything - and I had nothing.
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That's what I care about is the people I work with and representing them and helping to make their music apparent for the rest of the world.
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A polka-dot has the form of the sun, which is a symbol of the energy of the whole world and our living life, and also the form of the moon, which is calm. Round, soft, colourful, senseless and unknowing. Polka-dots can't stay alone; like the communicative life of people, two or three polka-dots become movement... Polka-dots are a way to infinity.
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Never look for justice in this world, never cease to give it.
