Ole Hallesby Quotes
It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.
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I love working the legislative process.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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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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No one will understand a Japanese garden until you've walked through one, and you hear the crunch underfoot, and you smell it, and you experience it over time. Now there's no photograph or any movie that can give you that experience.
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The truth is, when I got started in this business, it wasn't because I had a full understanding of the importance of the business, but because I thought it was fun. I found it exciting. It fulfilled me, whatever it was that I was looking for.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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I feel lucky to be getting older. The fact that I made it to 30 and then 40 was big enough. So I can't get too down on getting older; otherwise, it kind of undoes everything I've fought for.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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I remember doing a comedy show with Jim Carrey once, and he was out there with his foot behind his neck and rubbing his face with it.
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I'm an interpreter of stories. When I perform it's like sitting down at my piano and telling fairy stories.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Everybody sat around thinking about Panasonic, the Japanese electronics account. Finally I decided, what the hell, I'll throw a line to loosen them up. 'The headline is, the headline is: From Those Wonderful Folks Who Gave You Pearl Harbor.'
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I don't have a life-style, I have a life.
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It sounds not only disagreeable but also paradoxical, yet it must nevertheless be said that anyone who is to be really free and happy in love must have surmounted his respect for women and have come to terms with the idea of incest with his mother or sister.
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To call a Christian a theist is roughly equivalent to calling the space shuttle Atlantis a glider.
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It is only when we pray for something according to the will of God that we have the promise of being heard and answered.
