Edmund Phelps Quotes
My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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Our rights come from God, not the government.
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I know it starts at home, but all families are not staying together.
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I approach love differently now that I know it's hard for it to work out.
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Songwriter friends will be like, 'Oh my God, when are you going to put out 'Love Triangle?'' It's just been that song for me that really helped me get a lot of writing sessions and helped jump-start my writing career.
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We know that the elements in play in a show like 'Confederate' are much more raw, much more real, and people come into them much more sensitive and more invested, than they do with a story about a place called 'Westeros,' which none of them had ever heard of before they read the books or watched the show.
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I try not to look any further ahead than the next cup of tea. You never know if that cuppa will come or not, do you?
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One of the most untruthful things possible, you know, is a collection of facts, because they can be made to appear so many different ways.
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I veer away from trying to understand why I act. I just know I need to do it.
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I mean, we sit around and we go, you know, 'Torture doesn't work.' Well, it's been around for 5,000 years. Most stuff that doesn't work goes the way of the dodo pretty quick, like waterbeds and 8-tracks and things like that.
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The true object of war fought for God should always be peace.
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I don't know what I'm qualified to do, film-wise... So it's really down to a director or a casting director to find something that they think I could do.
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There is something magical about three you know - a trio is tight and nicely economical.
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As a writer, I wouldn't know how to not take things out of my life.
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I want to talk about jobs and health care and pension security and what we're going to do to stop the brain drain in Ohio and make it possible for our young people to stay here and build a life in Ohio rather than in Pennsylvania or West Virginia or God knows where.
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Well, as you know, I'm really only happy when I'm on stage.
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We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't always appreciate their fragility.
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Men judge us by the success of our efforts. God looks at the efforts themselves.
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A faith project in Christian artistry will never be healthy among us until there is a living sense of Christian community, and the misplaced emphasis on the 'individual' has been corrected. God has set things up so that cultural endeavour is always a communal enterprise, done by trained men and women in concert, gripped by a spirit that is larger than each one individually and that pulls them together as they do their formative work.
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The heaviest burden that one has to bear in this life is the burden of sin.
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The profoundly humorous writers are humorous because they are responsive to the hopeless, uncouth, concatenations of life.
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Dr. King was also radical in his beliefs about violence. He learned how to successfully fight hatred and violence with the unstoppable power of nonviolence.He once stopped an armed mob, saying: 'We are not advocating violence. We want to love our enemies. I want you to love our enemies. Be good to them. This is what we live by. We must meet hate with love.'
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
