F. F. Bruce Quotes Quotes
Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.
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I have a couple of gold teeth. I had braces for a year but I didn't wear the retainer.
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I like hip-hop, but I don't like concerts. There's, like, sweat on people's backs.
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People don't believe in me very much, but I have my teammates and my family that believe in me so much; they see how hard I work.
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A poet who is a bad man is a degraded being, baser and more culpable than a bad man who is not a poet.
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I'm aware that given what I've done in the past - and having a well-known parent - that people will be very quick to judge my path more than others, but I have to just not care.
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Pictures are for entertainment, messages should be delivered by Western Union.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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Leadership is an opportunity to serve. It is not a trumpet call to self-importance.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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In Singapore, Malcolm X type of activity would be extremely difficult because the government can be very harsh on lawbreakers.
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I'm based in London now. I'm renting an apartment, making my own little home. It's great because I am around people all the time and I need my own space to get away from it all.
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I'm a big Michael Lewis fan. That said, my favorite Lewis book was 'The Blind Side.'
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A pig's trotter is a fantastic thing. The first night of my honeymoon in Paris, my wife fell asleep in her steak tartare, so my trotter kept me company.
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Very few athletes get to experience a home Games, and I don't want to pass up the chance.
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I must be the only person in 'Strictly' history who's actually put on weight during rehearsals.
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Those who call me an opportunist are following the old rule: If you can't attack the data, attack the person.
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Further, the dignity of the science itself seems to require that every possible means be explored for the solution of a problem so elegant and so celebrated.
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I really think that there was a great advantage in many ways to being a woman. I think we are a lot better at personal relationships, and then have the capability obviously of telling it like it is when it's necessary.
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Aide-toi, le ciel t'aidera.
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America needs to understand Islam, because this is the one religion that erases from its society the race problem. Throughout my travels in the Muslim world, I have met, talked to, even eaten with people who in America would have been considered 'white,' but the 'white' attitude had been removed from their minds by the religion of Islam.
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My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. There were times when, in middle school and junior high, I didn't have a lot of friends. But my mom was always my friend. Always.
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I write short stories. They may appear big in size, but when you consider it, they're four or five novels in one. … In return for picking up one of my books, I'm trying to give them value for their money. … the goal of writing any book is to create the illusion that what you are reading is reality and you're part of it.
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Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.
