Sterling Marlin (Sterling Burton Marlin) Quotes
After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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Personal beauty is a greater recommendation than any letter of reference.
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Prayer is a confession of one's own unworthiness and weakness.
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I motivate others by making sure that they understand to go after their dreams and don't let anyone tell you you can't. If you are motivated enough and put the work in that you can achieve anything in life that you set your mind to.
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I wish that television would stop selling our hatred of ourselves, and start seducing us with our love of ourselves.
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I have many good friends, but I tend to keep to myself anyway. It's odd, doing things and having no one to share them with.
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I use the setting of a small rural Norwegian community - the kind of place that I know so intimately. I could never write a novel set in a big city, because, frankly, I don't know what it would be like.
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Isolation is a big part of songwriting.
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I consider myself a Texan. I grew up in Texas and Oklahoma.
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I love playing to people and seeing them react.
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Take the hardcore gamers. The characters are way more real in the world of hardcore gamers who have played the game for hundreds of hours. They have the movie in their heads, they've built it on their own. These guys are always very disappointed in the movies.
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Sorcery: the systematic cultivation of enhanced consciousness or non-ordinary awareness & its deployment in the world of deeds & objects to bring about desired results.
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The call of the gospel is for the church to implement the victory of God in the world through suffering love.
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Struggle is nature's way of strengthening it.
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I think thy horse will sooner con an oration than thou learn a prayer without book.
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We tend to use knowledge as therapy.
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Everybody has to find out: who are you? What do you believe in?
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I think a lot of people, especially women, feel like to be whole, you need to find part of yourself in another person - probably because of the fables we're told as kids.
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I have made a film about jazz that tries to look through jazz to see what it tells us about who we are as a people. I think that jazz is a spectacularly accurate model of democracy and a kind of look into our redemptive future possibilities.
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I would say that I learned that the heartbreak wasn't as much about me as the fact that my partner wasn't right with himself. I see where his life has taken him, and realize that the handwriting was on the wall. There were things that I had blamed myself for, but it was really more about his choices, his needs and his journey as a person. His desire for too much of everything made it a challenging relationship.
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After Richmond, we went to Dover and tested that week at Kentucky. I was going to Dover and we had to get the trainer to meet us at the airport. I had to do some therapy on my ribs they hurt so bad.
