R. A. Torrey Quotes
The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.
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My mom and stepdad were strict. I couldn't date; I couldn't go out. And I was a kid who was never good at just taking no for an answer. I needed to understand why. And sometimes they weren't interested in explaining.
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No one can end it, but incidents of corruption can be reduced.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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'The Voice' was the first real job I've ever had that wasn't just messing around with music.
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Everywhere in the universe, the periodic table has the same basic structure. Even if an alien civilization's table weren't plotted out in the castle-with-turrets shape we humans favor, their spiral or pyramidal or whatever-shaped periodic table would naturally pause after 118 elements.
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In studio films, everything has to be boxed in, everybody needs to know beforehand - this is comedy, this is sci-fi, this is drama - and what's the point of independent film if you don't get to experiment?
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Home, to me, is where I am and where I feel most comfortable. Obviously, Malaysia is home. In L.A., my home is my apartment because that's my Malaysia.
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I don't think being an athlete is unfeminine. I think of it as a kind of grace.
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I completely scorn the falsifying, the sanctimonious, the cheap and the shoddy.
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I never lie to my fans.
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It's only fair that stable gay relationships of long standing should have the same rights and responsibilities as married couples. I know the image of gay marriage is to some people horrific and ludicrous.
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Bernard always had a few prayers in the hall and some whiskey afterwards as he was rather pious.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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A lot of people think international relations is like a game of chess. But it's not a game of chess, where people sit quietly, thinking out their strategy, taking their time between moves. It's more like a game of billiards, with a bunch of balls clustered together.
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I've thought that 'Soulmate' in the 'Night World' series would make a really nice TV-movie or just a movie.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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Stop bragging about your lack of sweat and effort in achieving your goals. Start bragging about how hard you work, how patient you've become.
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We have honour, Sharpe. That is our private strength, our honour. We're Soldiers, you and I. We cannot expect riches, or dignity, or continual victory. We will die, probably, in battle, or in a fever ward, and no one will remember us, so all that is left is honour.
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Every artists wants to be applauded
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Will no man ever do something without a why, just like that, for the hell of it?
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Everybody loved me running for president in '91 and '92 because they never knew a presidential candidate before.
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Grapes become wine only when they have been squeezed.
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The failure to return thanks for definite blessings received is a manifestation of ingratitude that grieves Jesus Christ.
