Oswald Chambers Quotes
The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.
Quotes to Explore
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We must break problems down into small, digestible bits. We must define the concepts that we use and explain what components they consist of. We must tackle small problems.
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I have earned wages as a waitress, a nanny, a librarian, a personnel officer, an agricultural laborer, an advertising secretary, a typesetter, a proofreader, a mental-health-care provider, a substitute teacher, and a book reviewer. In and around the edges of all those jobs I have written poems, stories, and books, books, books.
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With a poetry book I can send 100 copies out to reviewers and other people, and even do it in advance and get their response. It's difficult with iPad: how do you send it out for free, and how do you even disseminate it before it goes into their store?
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My parents were both entrepreneurs.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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The death of a beautiful woman, is unquestionably the most poetical topic in the world.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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The idea that happiness could have a share in beauty would be too much of a good thing.
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Everybody hates you when you're the best, and everybody hates you when you're the worst.
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If you go to Africa and you're white, you're probably not going to get that much work either. But the fact is that there is a longer history of black integration in the U.S. I don't have any resentment about this: I did the maths, calculated it against my ambition and decided to leave England.
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Most of those coming from the mainland are very destitute, almost naked. I am trying to find places for those able to work, and provide for them as best I can, so as to lighten the burden on the Government as much as possible, while at the same time they learn to respect themselves by earning their own living.
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People accuse artists of being narcissists - of course we are! If we don't like ourselves, who's going to like us?
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Well, the average person comes home from work really tired, and just wants to flip through channels until they land on the thing that's the least objectionable to them. They're not looking for their new favorite TV show because they know that that search will take forever and they'll go to bed unhappy.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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In sport, a massive amount is to do with genetics.
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I graduated from the University of Oklahoma, and I got the opportunity to take some on-camera classes while I was in school and met a casting director who informed me quite a bit before my move out to L.A.; it made L.A. feel possible, coming from Oklahoma and not having a family that was in the industry.
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But most people don't come up to me and express a lot of emotion.
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As a profession, entrepreneurship breeds anything but balance. The highs can be stratospheric, and the lows can be crushing.
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African history is filled with experiences of people shooting their way to power and then splintering into factions, like in Somalia and Liberia.
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I don't live on the West Coast, so when I come out to work, I rent a house.
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Normally I can balance two or three things. The problem is when you're out of work and don't have anything to balance. I think people assume you're always busy. You go through dry spells.
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The secret of the missionary is...I am His, and He is carrying out His work through me.
