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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I'd definitely be up for 'EastEnders.' Just the same as I would if 'Coronation Street' was offered. Either way, it would be like going back to my roots.
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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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Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
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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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Our landings in the Cherbourg-Havre area have failed to gain a satisfactory foothold and I have withdrawn the troops. My decision to attack at this time and place was based on the best information available. The troops, the air and the Navy did all that bravery and devotion to duty could do. If any blame or fault attaches to the attempt, it is mine alone.
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Years of drought and famine come and years of flood and famine come, and the climate is not changed with dance, libation or prayer.
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I just naturally started to play music. My whole family played-my daddy played, my mother played. My daddy played bass, my cousin played banjo, guitar and mandolin. We played at root beer stands, like the .Drive-ins they have now, making $2.50 a night, and we had a cigar box for the kitty that we passed around, sometimes making fifty or sixty dollars a night. Of course we didn't get none of it, we kids.
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Great music is great music. It doesn't matter what genre it belongs.
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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!
