William Gurnall Quotes
Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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That crossover of whether it's entertainment or news is the biggest crock of b.s. in television today, because it's all entertainment.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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I'm not a morning person, but I've become one as the result of having kids. The morning is my private time to spend with my boys.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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What gives the artist real prestige is his imitators.
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I hope SeaWorld is exploring how, like Ringling, it can get out of the wild animal business.
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With my book 'How to Remodel a Man,' I was on 'Oprah,' 'Fox News,' 'The Early Show,' and 'Good Morning America.' 'Oprah' was the best - an hour long segment. TV is so short, you answer a few questions, and then it's over. It feels like a hit-and-run with a camera.
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Why are we, as a nation so obsessed with foreign things? Is it a legacy of our colonial years? We want foreign television sets. We want foreign shirts. We want foreign technology. Why this obsession with everything imported?
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If I could marry my motorcycle, I'd roll her right up to the altar.
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The power of the ballot we need in sheer defense, else what shall save us from a second slavery?
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My daughter, Lily Caitlin, means the most to me in the world.
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I write my songs and just play them, so there are not a whole lot of fireworks. As long as the music comes first, it's OK to have some fireworks. But not the other way around.
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Even though people say Richard Harris and I have been having a great feud, it's not true.
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There is a lot of negativity that you welcome into your life when you're an actor. You bare your soul for anyone to see.
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I have a lot of admiration for people who've been in relationships a long time, married for years.
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You have to constantly redefine who you are.
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Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
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I write easily, let's put it that way. And in a novel particularly, the characters take over. And they tell me what to say and they tell me what they're doing. And I'm a third of the way into a novel and then I just let the characters finish it for me.
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The true measure of success for the U.N. is not how much we promise, but how much we deliver for those who need us most.
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The Lord's Prayer is an excellent model, but it was never intended to be a magical incantation to get God's attention. Jesus gave this prayer as a pattern to suggest the variety of elements that should be included when we pray.
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Prayer is nothing but the promise reversed, or God's Word formed into an argument, and retorted by faith upon God again.
