Ole Hallesby Quotes
My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.
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It may be assumed as a fixed truth that the prosperity and riches of the farmer must depend on the prosperity and good national regulation of trade.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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The hatred Muslim extremists feel against the West feeds on certain conflicts in the world.
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In Australia, kids play in American accents.
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Change will not come from above, it will come from below, from the small and medium size businesspeople. They do dare to show their faces. They applaud us and help us financially.
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I don't play anymore, because I know I'm not going to be a pro golfer. So there's no reason to golf.
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Village cricket spread fast through the land.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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Everybody sooner or later has to drop the luggage and the baggage of illusions.
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We must think differently, look at things in a different way. Peace requires a world of new concepts, new definitions.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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If you're doing business, not that simple to only buy. You have to create something. You have to create something that never exist for the future.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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To me, success is choice and opportunity.
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'Giving 2.0' was born of my desire to redefine and democratize philanthropy.
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I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.
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I don't find it hard to direct myself. I can easily think of me as a horrible performer or a good performer. I work with actors who cannot stand watching or looking at themselves, which is not my case. I can have an eye and perspective on whether I'm terrible or good enough for me.
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Obviously, your family life is the priority, but there's still other stuff you have to get done in a day. I think the way I make it work is by taking care of myself, and that includes fitness and eating right and all those things, but also by being very organized and punctual.
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I always wanted to do a light-hearted entertainer, and 'Bruce Lee' is such a film. The brother-sister sentiment and the relationship between father and son will be very good. The comedy will be hilarious, but it is not a forced comedy.
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I think a lot of my songs are very silly and very stupid, written to entertain people, but in the end, I always come to that last line, and I feel that I have to wrap this up with a bit of dignity and a little tear in the eye; otherwise, the joke would be on the characters in the song.
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There's a tendency, when you're directing yourself, not to give the performance as much care, because you feel like there's too much focus on yourself, or that all these people are just standing around setting everything up, waiting for you.
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My helpless friend, your helplessness is the most powerful plea which rises up to the tender father-heart of God. You think that everything is closed to you because you cannot pray. My friend, your helplessness is the very essence of prayer.
