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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Martin Luther King said, and it is sadly still true, that one of the most segregated times in America is the hour of worship.
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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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Hollywood's full of transients. Everybody comes from somewhere else.
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I'm not a rock star. Sure I am, to a certain extent because of the situation, but when kids ask me how it feels to be a rock star, I say leave me alone, I'm not a rock star. I'm not in it for the fame, I'm in it because I like to play.
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Information on how to heal autism and how to possibly delay vaccines or prevent autism shouldn't come from me. It should come from the medical establishment.
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Zappa was very technical and impressed by things that were musically challenging - weird time signatures, strange keys, awkward chord sequences. Zappa was important to me as an example of everything I didn't want to do. I'm very grateful to him, actually.
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...funny how people want a return to the good ole days. Of coarse the good ole days of being a rich white plantation owner. Everyone seems to forget the poor white farmer.
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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.
