Jerry Bridges Quotes
If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.
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Just because I have two world records, everyone assumes that means automatically it is two guaranteed gold medals, but it isn't like that, and anything can happen in a race.
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Fiction basically is a form of gossip where you want to enter other people's lives, the lives of people you don't know, and you want to know what's going to happen to them.
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I don't want to waste my energy in other things; instead, I would put all that in reaching the next level in a craft that I love the most.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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I wear the national dress because it is the most natural and the most becoming for an Indian.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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I've always wanted to do charity stuff. I'm such a nurturer and love taking care of people.
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Poison is in everything, and no thing is without poison. The dosage makes it either a poison or a remedy.
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Hip-hop in the '90s began moving towards the Nation of Islam and the 5 Percenters, black nationalist movements; very much so, these movements embraced a form of Islam: Malcom X's form of Islam prior to his change.
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Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.
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There are big problems that change the world. If we are working together, that will make us understand each other, appreciate each other, help each other.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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I've done approximately 15 films, and most of the things I've done have either been stunt or costume work.
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I've got angels watching out for me.
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Working with Chiranjeevi sir, I realized the professionalism and attitude they used work with. It's just so contagious. When such a personality is doing that, everyone around, too, would do that out of respect. Work was far more efficient, smoother.
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How you choose to present yourself to the world shows what's meaningful to you - and what you want others to think is meaningful to you.
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When I moved to New York, I started switching fragrances. Between different seasons I would change fragrance, or if I was going out for a big fancy night versus going out in the daytime. But I also found that I was changing and growing so much.
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In life, single women are the most vulnerable adults. In movies, they are given imaginary power.
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Why is it any more reasonable to believe that God has always been than it is to say that matter has always been?
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There's always moments where you creep yourself out, and you think you heard something and you convince yourself that some spirit is in the room with you, but truly, I don't believe in any of that kind of thing. A lot of my friends really do.
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If we are going to learn to trust God in adversity, we must believe God will allow nothing to subvert His glory so He will allow nothing to spoil the good He is working out in us and for us.
