J. Edwin Orr Quotes
Many ills of the Christian life are due to handicapped beginnings. Too many people are preaching a warped or truncated gospel, and spiritual birth defects are the inevitable result.
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I believe that it is my responsibility as the prime minister of Israel to do whatever can be done to exploit the unique opportunities that lie ahead of us to move towards peace. Not everything can be done by one act.
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I think talent makes me really attracted to someone more than anything.
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Left-wing politicians take away your liberty in the name of children and of fighting poverty, while right-wing politicians do it in the name of family values and fighting drugs. Either way, government gets bigger and you become less free.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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You know they're not going to lose 162 consecutive games.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
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A lot of the time when I write about the person that I love, I feel like I'm writing about New York.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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The notion that one will not survive a particular catastrophe is, in general terms, a comfort since it is equivalent to abolishing the catastrophe.
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I have great admiration for the way the Americans do business. They drive a hard bargain, but once they do it, they stick to their contracts.
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My family is from Nigeria, and my full name is Uzoamaka, which means 'The road is good.'
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I was what they call 'skinny fat' - a body that resembled a python after swallowing a goat.
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The characteristic of scientific progress is our knowing that we did not know.
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Growing up, I wanted to be a musician. My mother, in typical Filipino-mom fashion, would always make me go up in front of people at parties to sing. Back then, as a kid, I was mortified. In retrospect, I see that doing that as a child helped me get over my fear of being in front of people.
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I was interested in making work that physically changed as it circulated through the art world.
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The burden of the self is lightened with I laugh at myself.
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I get maximum satisfaction out of buying children's clothes online.
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Our great string of successes had married my vision to his unmatched aptitude for business.
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There are people out there dying every day, so when you wake up, you just have to thank the Man Upstairs for another day on this planet. There's not much else we can ask for.
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The United States is our best friend, and our relations are excellent. Our relations will be strengthened even more, despite our differences in views.
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Nastiness and mockery and meanness sometimes seem as if they're spreading like a contagion.
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If a woman is worth remembering,' said my grandmother, 'there is no need to have her name carved in letters.
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Many ills of the Christian life are due to handicapped beginnings. Too many people are preaching a warped or truncated gospel, and spiritual birth defects are the inevitable result.
