Jim Elliot Quotes
We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!
Quotes to Explore
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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I like Disney Channel a lot, and I also like to watch 'Full House.'
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You never grow out of high school sadly.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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I discovered I was a monotheist... That rules out polytheism. I have also had a problem with authority, which rules out any religion with a priesthood or leader who claims to be God's representative on Earth.
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It took me a long, long time to break the chains that's inside me.
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One of the disadvantages of wine is that it makes a man mistake words for thoughts.
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It's like someone important is missing from a party because you can't imagine an Olympic gymnastics competition without Romania.
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For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.
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I don't really compare any of the characters I play; I try to go into them being very open to what the characters can offer and what I can bring to them and then bring a being to life.
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We want to make sure that women have a way to use all their gifts in society, to get educated, to be all they can be in the workforce, to really develop as people in all the ways that they can. We want this for men too! And we want this for children. Well this can't happen if this can be sandbagged by an ill-timed and unwanted pregnancy.
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I adored my father.
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All eyes are on you when you're modeling and acting, and I just didn't want the attention when I wasn't working. But as I've gotten older, I've become more comfortable with my body and am taking more fashion risks.
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As a novelist, I ask of myself only that I tell the truth and that I tell it beautifully.
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I had to learn the hard way some really important life lessons. There was really no one there to say, don't do this or don't do that.
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Though slavery is thought, by some, to be mild in Missouri, when compared with the cotton, sugar and rice growing states, yet no part of our slave-holding country is more noted for the barbarity of its inhabitants than St. Louis.
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I just never have really been the kind of person that's out in public being inappropriate, I guess. I like to have fun as much as the next person but I tend to do it in private and just hang out with close friends. If I'm going to go out, I'll just do it with my really good friends.
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One challenge to the arts in America is the need to make the arts, especially the classic masterpieces, accessible and relevant to today's audience.
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We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with.... Oh that God would make us dangerous!
