Alistair Begg Quotes
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I am a perfectly normal woman. If what we do is storytelling and represent people that we see all day and every day, well, we do not see supermodels all day and every day.
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The resolution has made a real threat of war go away and opens the way for further work in the interests of a political- diplomatic settlement of the situation around Iraq.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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The witty woman is a tragic figure in American life. Wit destroys eroticism and eroticism destroys wit, so women must choose between taking lovers and taking no prisoners.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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I said 'It can't go on' and he said 'No, it can't.' Honestly, I don't think I could have mattered less to him by then. But by then, nothing mattered to him.
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I think it's always a good idea to dress as someone you like, as long as it's done in good taste. That's the key.
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I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
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I wanted to become a kindergarten teacher like my mother.
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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There is no black-and-white situation. It's all part of life. Highs, lows, middles.
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How did George Bensen cut 'In Your Eyes?' How did I work with the Backstreet Boys? It all comes back to 'Sometimes When We Touch.'
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When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.
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El hombre, cuando es solamente lo que parece ser el hombre, casi no es nada.
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We tend to treat eating and diets as one size fits all. But the human body is very personalized.
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Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
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I ask but one thing of you, only one, That always you will be my dream of you; That never shall I wake to find untrue All this I have believed and rested on, Forever vanished, like a vision gone Out into the night. Alas, how few There are who strike in us a chord we knew Existed, but so seldom heard its tone We tremble at the half-forgotten sound. The world is full of rude awakenings And heaven-born castles shattered to the ground, Yet still our human longing vainly clings To a belief in beauty through all wrongs. O stay your hand, and leave my heart its songs!
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... and she held out a pretty gold ring. 'Put it,' she said, 'on the fourth finger of my left hand, and I am yours and you are mine; and we shall leave Earth and make our own Heaven yonder.'
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It cannot be denied that outward accidents conduce much to fortune, favor, opportunity, death of others, occasion fitting virtue; but chiefly, the mold of a man's fortune is in his own hands.
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When grace begins to rule, then our preoccupation with ourselves begins to leave.
