Oswald Chambers Quotes
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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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I needed an opportunity to get back in the studio and get my recording chops back together.
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I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
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I don't really know why I care so much. I just have something inside me that tells me that there is a problem, and I have got to do something about it. I think that is what I would call the God in me.
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I'm kind of obsessed with cool girls.
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When I see a dolphin, I know it's just as smart as I am.
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Jewelry, to me, is a pain in the derriere, because you have to be watching it all the time.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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There might be 1 finger on the trigger, but there will be 15 fingers on the safety catch.
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If I can hit No. 1 on the 'New York Times' best-seller list, I'm thinking of having the entire list tattooed on my body somewhere. It would be fabulous.
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I'm not a writer. I'm not smart. I couldn't possibly even write my own story.
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I think of myself as a performance artist. I hate being called a pop star. I hate that.
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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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Well, the big products in electronics in the '50s were radio and television. The first big computers were just beginning to come in and represented the most logical market for us to work in.
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America has not produced a more salient political musician than Gil Scott-Heron.
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I rarely play a real person, because I don't think I'm a good imitator.
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I'd say mostly I paint hot chicks.
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I grew up in Deptford in south London, and at that time I used to wear toppers, loon pants and tonic suits from shops like Take 6 and Topman. I was a bit of a soul boy, but I had a very eclectic taste in music - I was into James Brown and Bowie; and I was the only kid in the neighbourhood who would also be listening to Chopin.
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I was forced to lie to my father by doctors and relatives. I made that choice and agreed with them, and I will never, ever get over it. If I hear a lie in my life with my children, with my wife, my work, my audiences, I want to annihilate myself, vaporize myself, and wipe myself off the face of the earth.
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A ritual or tradition can be as simple as something you do every night, like read a story to a small child, or something you do weekly, such as go out for Chinese food.
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I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.
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When I was a kid, we'd go to the movies, and my parents would reach out to everyone around us in the theater, most of whom could barely afford the movie ticket. They'd hand out popcorn and Milk Duds, strike up conversations with them, lend shoulders to cry on, learn their names, and smile at everyone.
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Worship is about God relationship. I need to remember to keep it that simple.
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Prayer is simple, as simple as a child making known its wants to it parents.
