K. P. Yohannan Quotes
We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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For me, it is very important to control a situation in defence. You can always score goals, but you have to add stability in the defence.
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The Romantics were whipping boys of the New Criticism, but they appealed to me anyway. I was recalcitrant. It was clear to me that they had thought innovatively.
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If I had my way, I wouldn't be sharing my personal life online. I'm a private person. At home, I don't wander around shirtless, flexing my muscles. I roam around unshaven, with my hair disheveled. Unfortunately, people perceive you differently. It's okay; they're free to speculate.
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My maternal grandmother - she was a compulsive reader. She had only been through five grades of elementary school, but she was a member of the municipal library, and she brought home two or three books a week for me. They could be dime novels or Balzac.
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When you watch it, you're like, Wow. I look like that. But it doesn't feel like that at all. It was about communicating with Gale Harold and getting across what I wanted to say about the character.
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The spring wakes us, nurtures us and revitalizes us. How often does your spring come? If you are a prisoner of the calendar, it comes once a year. If you are creating authentic power, it comes frequently, or very frequently.
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Fame can be annoying, but there are perks too.
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I've never been that comfortable talking about myself or about acting.
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Undeniably, I'm a country singer; I'm a country songwriter. But I feel like I make country music for people who like country music and for people who don't.
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The only ones who like Milton Berle are his mother - and the public.
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Working with Tyler Perry has been a wonderful experience. Everything he touches turns to gold, it seems like.
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You leave old habits behind by starting out with the thought, 'I release the need for this in my life'.
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There's no second chance on stage, and I was trained to make the most of my first chance.
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Truth is stranger than nonfiction. And life is too interesting to be left to journalists. People have stories, but journalists have 'takes,' and it's their takes that usually win out when the stories are too complicated or, as happens, not complicated enough.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I had learning disabilities, and I couldn't express myself in the written word.
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I opened about a dozen employment centers for Arab women across Israel during my two years as minister of economy.
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Sport seems to be much more important to people than politics.
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The first rule of making progress in anything you do is setting goals, allowing yourself to always have a finish line in sight. This provides a boost in motivation during those moments when slogging forward seems impossible, giving you something tangible to work towards at every moment.
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My stand-up act is very clean.
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I believe people who practice their beliefs in daily life are activists.
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I'm not really much of an actor, so when I started on 'The Daily Show,' I was just trying to adopt the faux authority of a newsperson. Having a British accent definitely gave me a sonic leg up on that because there is a faux authority to the British accent in and of itself.
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We must pay a price to touch godliness through daily decision to die to self and embrace the cross.
