John Woolman Quotes
The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.
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I could be the best looking guy in the Duma, but that's only because all the other guys are over 60.
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I don't even own a television. I don't watch network television.
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Golf... is the infallible test. The man who can go into a patch of rough alone, with the knowledge that only God is watching him, and play his ball where it lies, is the man who will serve you faithfully and well.
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I've never considered myself to be a fashionista type of guy.
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At NBC I wasn't really sure if the grandparents were going to get my sense of humor on a particular topic.
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You might think the thinner version of yourself is going to be the most positive or confident, but that's not how it is for me. When I'm over 200 pounds, that's when I'm the most confident version of myself.
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I think socializing on the Internet is to socializing what reality TV is to reality.
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I am very emotional. It took me many years to recover from the death of my father. Even when I was playing cricket, I wasn't happy. I would just sit and cry. I was very young. He was too young; he shouldn't have gone. Cricket is all right. We all play sport. Good and bad days come.
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I'm an entrepreneur, a businessman. I've got a lot of money, and that doesn't go very well with the whole 'starving artist in a garret' routine.
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It's easy to make a film, but it's hard to make a career of being a filmmaker.
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I started off singing in church as a child. The sound of voices coming together, that was my first moment of touching something outside of myself.
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Love cures people - both the ones who give it and the ones who receive it.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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During the ten years I lived in the U.K., I frequently attended an Anglican church just outside of London. I enjoyed the energetic singing and the thoughtful homilies. And yet, I found it easy to be a pew warmer, a consumer, a back row critic.
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There's this sort of cloud that hangs where people are like: 'How long can you keep the heat of 'Homeland' going?' People have short memories is the truth, and Hollywood loves the new and shiny.
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I, myself, I am not interested in reality television; just me, myself, speaking.
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I won't leave any unfinished manuscripts.
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Our pluralist society must provide its citizens with the tools to understand religions, their symbols and their practices.
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Use the losses and failures of the past as a reason for action, not inaction.
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There's no such thing as a good time. I started an apparel-manufacturing business in the tech-boom years. I mean, come on. Get out of your garage and go take a chance and start your business.
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Maybe a person's time would be as well spent raising food as raising money to buy food.
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A man doesn't plant a tree for himself. He plants it for posterity.
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Baby, baby let me sleep on itLet me sleep on itAnd I'll give you my answer in the morning...
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The Lord had been very gracious, and spoke peace to me in the time of my distress, and I now most ungratefully turned again to folly; at times I felt sharp reproof, but I did not get low enough to cry for help.
