J. Edwin Orr Quotes
It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the most immediate and dramatic effects of college revivals has been the recruitment of personnel for the work of Christ abroad.
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Every step of progress the world has made has been from scaffold to scaffold, and from stake to stake.
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I'm optimistic about people and about the planet and about nature. I think it's resilient, like people are.
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The irony is that Washington was, in reality, very much like Benedict Arnold. The big difference was that Washington was ultimately able to control his emotions, something Arnold never learned to do.
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The mere process of growing old together will make the slightest acquaintance seem a bosom friend.
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Sadly, for some mothers, this experience can be made so much harder due to challenges with our very mental health.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I learned so much in Zimbabwe, in particular about the need for humility in our ambition to extend mental health care in countries where there were very few psychiatrists and where the local culture harboured very different views about mental illness and healing. These experiences have profoundly influenced my thinking.
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I'm a little angry in life.
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I was in high school. A couple of my friends and I decided we had to be in a class together where we could fool around, and drama was it because we'd do improvs, beating each other up. They left a year later, and I stayed in and got a knack for it, and enjoyed the whole process.
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The relationship with time changes when you're captive.
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I love romantic comedies, or romantic dramas - basically anything with love in it.
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I see you're a man with ideals. I better be going before you've still got them.
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If you're not in it you can't win it.
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If you respect a language and culture, it shows in your work.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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My childhood was limited to mostly gospel music. We didn't have, like, a lot of records in our house, you know. It was like my grandparents who raised me. They were pretty old-fashioned in their religious ways, so it was like church, church, church, school, school, school.
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I wasn't a very good student in elementary school and had a hard time with reading and writing.
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I just think people are fed up with people who are career politicians who don't stand for anything.
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It's always better to speak the language of the team. Not only for the direct contact with everyone - sometimes it also helps you to understand the mentality of the people in the team a bit better.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.
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The business is so international now; you'll be working on an American film, and you'll start chatting to someone, and it's like: 'Oh, you're English, too.'
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I treat golf as a sport. I let other people treat it like a hobby.
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It is utterly impossible to divorce the story of student awakenings from the course of missions in countries overseas. From the beginning, one of the most immediate and dramatic effects of college revivals has been the recruitment of personnel for the work of Christ abroad.
