Hal Elrod Quotes
It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.
Quotes to Explore
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People look to time in expectation that it will eventually make them happy, but you cannot find true happiness by looking toward the future.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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A lot of my work involves instilling objects with the power of touch - a transference of soul, spirit, energy through actions.
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One thing that we decided very early in the relationship is that when he goes, we all go - the whole family.
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I was a very focused kid. I always had this crazy lifestyle... billions of jobs, two hours of gymnastics every day, handball, anything with a ball, really. I must have had ADHD or something. I was very energetic, and very small. I didn't start growing until the last year of high school.
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For everybody that does something bad there's gotta be someone that does something good.
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I'm annoying to be around because I keep twitching.
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Life rarely presents fully finished photographs. An image evolves, often from a single strand of visual interest - a distant horizon, a moment of light, a held expression.
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I suspect I was not the first 21-year-old who thought he knew more than he did. And one of the virtues of age, one of the virtues of getting married and becoming a father, is it often leads one to take a more measured approach to life.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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A doctor is not a mechanic. A car doesn't react with a mechanic, but a human being does.
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A hit film is what we work for as actors, as that goes to show that we have managed to entertain our audiences who shower us with their love and affection throughout the years.
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I do so much music that it's like a fog, and I can't even remember all of it.
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I was in an awful lot of trouble in Hollywood.
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China and Russia are regarded as the most formidable cyber threats.
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I'm often drawn to characters that are more obviously one thing. They're passionate, and there is always an element of strength because I think every person possesses that in some way, even if they've experienced hardship in their lives.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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We were like a stock company at Warners. We didn't know any of the stars from the other studios.
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This war is not an ordinary war. It is the war of the entire Russian people. Not only to eliminate the danger hanging over our heads, but to aid all people groaning under the yoke of Fascism.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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To be human is to be aware of the passage of time; no concept lies closer to the core of our consciousness.
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It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.
