Jerry Bridges Quotes
Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.
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It is with obedience to your call that I take up the burden of government leadership for the final time.
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People first concern themselves with meeting their basic needs; only afterwards, do they pursue any higher needs.
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I've always wanted to be someone with credibility, and I want my food to speak for myself.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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I looked at Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and the boys up there thinking, I want to be that.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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I'm my own biggest marketing tool. I know the history of the business and I might as well capitalize on it.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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Friendship is like money, easier made than kept.
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The mentality with African and European people is different. In Africa, when you come from a difficult life, when it's not so easy to eat, not so easy to survive, you respect money when you start to earn it, and you respect people more. When you respect people, they will respect you, and your life is better for that.
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College professors used to be badly paid and worth it. Colleges used to be modest institutions; they should go back to being modest institutions.
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No cricket should be played for at least a month anywhere in the world after a World Cup.
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One characteristic that I hope I never relinquish is an intense curiosity about the world around me.
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Actors don't, in fact, retire, do they? It took me a while to remember that.
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Don't eat me. I have a wife and kids. Eat them.
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I'm never trying to break a career high out there.
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I've been trekking the hills and lanes of the British countryside for nearly four decades now and I've come to associate my passion with overexcited poets rather than pampered painters.
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I don't remember my parents together, ever: my father was much older, and really only interested in collecting magazines and bathroom suites; we were the only family in the area to have a bathroom suite on the lawn.
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If I'm on a bus and someone makes my blood boil, I'll pocket those emotions and put them in a song.
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Working as a solo artist has given me a confidence that I didn't have with Blondie.
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Everyone should have cancer one time - then you'd know that other things aren't important. The guy that gives you the finger at the stoplight don't mean nothing anymore. You come home and something's cold, or you didn't get something in the mail. Big deal. You want to get up every day and see your family and your friends.
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Let me get a sip of water here...you figure this stuff is safe to drink? audience yells 'No' Actually, I don't care, I drink it anyway. You know why? 'Cause I'm an American and I expect a little cancer in my food and water. I'm a loyal American and I'm not happy unless I let government and industry poison me a little bit every day.
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I have often said one of the greatest secrets of missionary work is work! If a missionary works, he will get the Spirit; if he gets the Spirit, he will teach by the Spirit; and if he teaches by the Spirit, he will touch the hearts of the people and he will be happy. There will be no homesickness, no worrying about families, for all time and talents and interests are centered on the work of the ministry. Work, work, work-there is no satisfactory substitute, especially in missionary work.
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Uncontrolled temper is soon dissipated on others. Resentment, bitterness, and self-pity build up inside our hearts and eat away at our spiritual lives like a slowly spreading cancer.
