Thomas à Kempis Quotes
The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
Quotes to Explore
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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I will say the scope of the 'Supergirl' pilot was incredible. I've personally never been involved in something with such a huge production value and scope.
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Inside, I've got a real purist desire and dream about the music. I like the idea of being able to carve out a kind of magical, colourful, artistic, inspirational life. And the reality just turns out to be quite different, working with the business to bring this thing you have created into the world.
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He told us he was going to take crime out of the streets. He did. He took it into the damn White House.
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The only way not to think about money is to have a great deal of it.
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I'm very happy with what I've accomplished, but we're going for more.
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Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
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I don't have a definition for depression. I'm productive, and that's not a sign of depression, right? And I don't have weeks where I don't leave my bed. It seems like depressed people have those.
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Writing humor for me is more like a watchful-ness. You have to watch. When you say something funny, or someone else does, it's more like you wait for the piece.
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It's easy for me to get along with chess players. Even though we are all very different, we have chess in common.
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The 'ideal' body is everywhere you look, and we are made to feel like failures by advertisers and corporations who shame us into buying their products.
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I was lucky I always got along with girls. It was never like a big deal. I had a lot of girls that I was friends with that I wasn't sexual with. I think having two older sisters made me comfortable like that. I just like people, so I can just go up and say whatever.
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I've told several writers this, and, again, I get back to it, but if you want to make God smile, tell him your plans.
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Some people try to get very philosophical and cerebral about what they're trying to say with jazz. You don't need any prologues, you just play.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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The first rounds of a tournament are always tricky because playing tennis takes a lot out of you.
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I'm known to be hands on 100%. I don't know any other way to be than a leader by example.
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The bourgeois novel is the greatest enemy of truth and honesty that was ever invented. It's a vast, sentimentalizing structure that reassures the reader, and at every point, offers the comfort of secure moral frameworks and recognizable characters.
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It was nice to focus on things outside of my body. Music has always done that for me.
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In being aware of others' hunger, we contribute to a more empathic world.
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I use God in my songs a lot but I don't have a relationship. I don't know what that means.
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Petal, like a persistent song phrase, like a few stubborn lines of verse memorized in childhood. The needle was stuck.
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The social-media landscape changes incredibly fast, so you have to be open-minded and nimble to keep up with it.
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The more humble and obedient to God a man is, the more wise and at peace he will be in all that he does.
