Jim Elliot Quotes
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Ikea people do not drive flashy cars or stay at luxury hotels.
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I listen to KCRW in the car and Pandora radio, which I stream through the stereo from my iPhone. I've been listening to everything from Caribou to Conway Twitty. If I'm going on a longer car ride, I'll download some podcasts.
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Stay humble. Always answer your phone - no matter who else is in the car.
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I couldn't find the sports car of my dreams, so I built it myself.
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I love fast cars... and to go too fast in them.
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All the sounds on 'Trapped in the Closet' - the knockin' on the door, when I grab the keys, when I walk down the stairs, the car horns - we sampled all of those things around my house.
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When I was a kid, the only way I saw movies was from the back seat of my family's car at the drive-in.
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Most of us would never consider getting our car repaired without first receiving an estimate of the charges, but this is exactly what we do when we need to go to a hospital for treatment.
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I quit after a bad car accident. The thing about boxing is that you can be a star for five or six years, but when you go back to the old life, it's tough.
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Screaming is hard after a while.
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Make the hard ones look easy and the easy ones look hard.
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I was raising seven kids. I lived in the bedrooms, in the laundry room, in the kitchen, in the car - car pooling all over. I just didn't have time to sit down and watch a lot of TV. So I really didn't.
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Yes, it's hard to write. But it's harder not to.
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It seems to me I spent my life in car pools, but you know, that's how I kept track of what was going on.
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There were times when I thought I would never own a car.
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So struggling for work here has been very good for me, but it's also been very hard to handle rejection.
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The red carpet is kind of a surreal experience. There's nothing normal about it, so for me the most important thing is to maintain some normality right until the point you get out of the car.
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I loved problems on paper, and I was good at math, but I was a mechanical engineer, and I never understood - or cared to - how a car worked.
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I got my first real job, one that didn't involve wearing a hairnet or bending over the hood of a wet car with a towel in my hand, in the early '90s working for CBS Records. While there, I started my first of several rock bands and eventually wrote my first book, the semi-autobiographical novel, 'Don't Sleep With Your Drummer.'
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We believe that business is the engine that drives the car. You've got to build your business base. That means creating more jobs, better paying jobs - that's how you raise your standard of living. That's how you raise your quality of life. That's what funds all the other services people want from government.
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I learn something new about the game almost every time I step on the course.
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That's one of the things about theater vs. film - with theater, actors have a little more control, and one of the disappointing things about films is that once you're done shooting, anything can happen, you know?
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You can open to the idea that whatever happened to you in the past eventually turned out or will turn out to be a benefit to you.
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It's hard to steer a parked car.
