Albert Benjamin Simpson Quotes
We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.
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I've always been a very confident person, and I know how important it is to take advantage when life gives you opportunity.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Most of the time, the lyrics are kind of like my secret messages to my friends or my boyfriend or my mom or my dad. I would never tell them that these songs are about them or which specific lyric is about somebody. Often, when I sit down to write a lyric, it is in the heat of the moment, and something has just happened.
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I love to look back, but I don't want my music to be nostalgic. I want it to have the same vibrancy that the music I love had when it came out. I'm trying to get that electricity.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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I still audition a lot and work really hard to get work. So I don't really walk around feeling like I've made it. My short term goals are really just to be creatively stimulated and to be excited about material I might be working on.
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I've been a speaker. I've been a majority leader. I've been a minority leader. Those are the sort of things I don't need any more.
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The first time you meet someone, the conversation is sort of on life support. You're just trying to live another moment in the life of the conversation.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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Adversity has ever been considered the state in which a man most easily becomes acquainted with himself.
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I think the thing that L.A. had on Sydney is an awesome music scene, especially for what I do.
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I'm vehemently against population transfer. I'm against expelling anyone from his house, ever - whether it be a Jew or an Arab.
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Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
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If you're not careful, you can fall into a destructive cycle of self-pity.
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I don't like going to 155; I do it because everyone else does.
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The mistake we make is to attribute to religions the errors and fanaticism of human beings.
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He wants to live on through something - and in his case, his masterpiece is his son… all of us want that, and it gets more poignant as we get more anonymous in this world.
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If you're a minority party that doesn't control any branch of government, you're more likely to be ignored.
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There's a story... a legend, about a bird that sings just once in its life. From the moment it leaves its nest, it searches for a thorn tree... and never rests until it's found one. And then it sings... more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. And singing, it impales itself on the longest, sharpest thorn. But, as it dies, it rises above its own agony, to outsing the lark and the nightingale. The thorn bird pays its life for just one song, but the whole world stills to listen, and God in his heaven smiles.
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We must surrender ourselves so utterly that we can never own ourselves again. We must hand over self and all its rights in an eternal covenant, and give God the absolute right to own us, control us and possess us forever.
