Jim Elliot Quotes
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I've gone through stages where I hate my body so much that I won't even wear shorts and a bra in my house because if I pass a mirror, that's the end of my day.
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The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
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I think I'm very stoic. Death and dying are things that I'm used to.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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When you read a comic book, there's a space between what's happening on the panel and what you have to literally see in your mind. That's not true of movies, where you see everything.
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You watch 'Whale Rider,' and I defy you to not get teary-eyed at the end there.
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I've learned to be more accepting of myself. I'm 37, not 18, and I've got the lines to prove it. I try to remind myself that a girl can have it all, just not all at once.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I can't give you a brain, but I can give you a diploma.
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Often, as a young actress, you find yourself being the only girl in a room full of men... and one of the reasons why I like 'Grey's Anatomy' is because they have such strong female characters and the women really drive this show.
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I love the beach. I love the sea. All my life I live within - in front of the sea.
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The general belief is that communists in the United Nations come only from the Iron Curtain countries, but this isn't so. We must remember that many of the representatives of free countries are members of the local Communist parties. If you add them all up, you will see they have an amazing degree of control.
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I drink a gallon of water a day.
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I had given up on acting because I would go for auditions every day, but nothing would happen.
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If you have a passion and love for something, it's hard to give it up. I had jobs where the people were helpful and let me go to auditions, and I'd make up the hours another day. I was lucky in that respect: I could afford to get to London.
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At no time are we ever in such complete possession of a journey, down to its last nook and cranny, as when we are busy with preparations for it.
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I don't need to prove that I'm some great international filmmaker. It's not really on my list of goals.
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I think about all of my students who were math-phobic, who didn't believe they could learn math, who didn't understand, who didn't think they were smart enough, and by the end, they understood that they already had the gifts, and my job was to help them access them, and I believe that.
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There are two things without limit – the stupidity of Man and the mercy of God.
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When you've written a film and directed it and it comes out exactly as you imagined it, it's pretty boring.
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Live to the hilt every situation you believe to be the will of God.
