Adrienne von Speyr Quotes
If there were just one possibility—either to do the good or to combat evil—man would have to opt for the first.
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Dr. Phil is hiding something. Otherwise, why wouldn't he use his last name?
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I'm such a stereotypical female learner in that I love social studies and love literature, and I always struggled with math and science.
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Who cares and remembers if my last film was a success? I need to work harder.
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In Sweden, they broadcast the American shows in English with Swedish subtitles, whereas in many European countries they dub them. Watching those shows in English was big for me.
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With freedom comes responsibility, and I can think of no responsibility greater than putting on a U.S military uniform and standing in the gap between an enemy threat and civilian life.
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There is not one New York but thousands - mixed-up conurbations and microclimates with their own internal logics and charms, dreams and juxtapositions, faces and tongues.
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The spiritual is the cause of action. Action is life.
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We're in very bad trouble if we don't understand the planet we're trying to save.
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I don't believe there is any finer mission on Earth than just to make people laugh.
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My mother opened a bank account for me when I made $60 on my first day of work as an extra. She's that kind of mother.
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There's no harm being a copycat. If someone else is doing a good job, copy. It's free.
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Pro football gave me a good sense of perspective to enter politics: I'd already been booed, cheered, cut, sold, traded and hung in effigy.
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On Christmas, my family and I see a movie and go out for Chinese food. We don't celebrate Christmas in the traditional sense, in that we do not actually celebrate Christmas.
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Honestly, I expected to get a cold reception because of my subject matter. But when editors took a look at the story I had to tell, and saw that this was not a parochial story at all, they really warmed to it.
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And he said that he wrote the Bond character based on the character of David Niven. That's how he saw Bond.
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I want to protect my vision, and that's the hardest thing.
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Selling is essentially a transfer of feelings.
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All national histories are partisan and designed to give us a good conceit of ourselves.
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If you want to run an ad on the iPad, it has to be approved by Apple.
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I believe I could commit a crime. We all can. It depends on which situations we find ourselves in. In despair, I would steal food if my children were hungry.
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My challenge is really to say, 'Can you name me a moral action or a statement that has been made by a believer that couldn't have been made by a non-believer?'
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I think I'm close to lot of people in Bollywood, but I believe in evil eye, and I feel when I talk about friendships and relationships in public something somewhere goes wrong with it.
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Whether it's theatre or TV or film, you're hoping you're going to bump into a writer that's got a bit of honour in him, that wants to tell a good story and is able to tell it well.
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If there were just one possibility—either to do the good or to combat evil—man would have to opt for the first.
