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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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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Social phenomenology is the science of my own and of others' experience. It is concerned with the relation between my experience of you and your experience of me. That is, with inter-experience. It is concerned with your behaviour and my behaviour as I experience it, and your and my behaviour as you experience it.
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To throw a shoe at a man in Dundee is the equivalent of a kiss on the cheek and an embrace in London. Dundee is a very different place; they have their own rules.
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Being able to run an NBA team at 19 is not easy.
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Movies touch our hearts, and awaken our vision, and change the way we see things. They take us to other places. They open doors and minds. Movies are the memories of our lifetime. We need to keep them alive.
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We peer so suspiciously at each other that we cannot see that we Canadians are standing on the mountaintop of human wealth, freedom and privilege.
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The only way to drive out bad culture is to create good culture. We need to recognize that artistic talent is a gift from the Lord - and that developing those talents is the only way to create good culture.
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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.
