Hal Elrod Quotes
It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.

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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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The creative writer uses his life as well as being its victim; he can control, in his work, the self-presentation that in actuality is at the mercy of a thousand accidents.
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How you staff, particularly the chief of staff, the national security adviser, your White House counsel, how you set up a process in the system to surface information and generate options for a president, understanding that ultimately the president is going to be the final decision-maker. That's something that has to be attended to right away.
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In the military, we can only do so much. The reality of it is if someone... really wants to make an impact on national security and the military as a whole... the person that has the ability to do that most is a knowledgeable civilian leader.
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I'm a person who always wanted to turn my life into an archive. Social media made my dream come true.
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It's true that everything happens for a reason, but it is always our responsibility to choose the reasons.