Ambrose of Optina Quotes
If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will see your desire and effort and put love in your heart.

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I'm ready to stretch my legs. I'm ready to jump in the ring.
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There's such a pressure on women that we put on ourselves and everyone else puts on us to look unrealistic and everything, but you just can't compare yourself to people in magazines.
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There are lots of wonderful old Italian actors. You don't need to take an Egyptian to play an Italian actor.
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I don't believe in societal restrictions. It wasn't a choice - conformity simply never occurred to me.
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Gene Hackman is one of the great American actors of all time.
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Death is the only pure, beautiful conclusion of a great passion.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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And also, it's sort of my job to make you believe things about him that aren't true about me.
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Well, of course I think people can be forgiven. But our justice system is not set up to dispense forgiveness. You can go to the local priest for that.
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You make knowledge relevant to life and you make it important for children to learn things that will really relate to things going on in their lives, and not abstract.
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Ceausescu thought I had only a few medals, but I have a room full of them in Bucharest, between 150-200 in all. They needed suitcases to haul them out.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Feminism encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians.
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Amateurs hope, professionals work.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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To change what you get, you must change who you are.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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Leaks are always bad news.
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People can be slave-ships in shoes.
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It's amazing. My kids have grown me in ways I never knew possible. The patience I've received and the love I get from them is just amazing.
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I am frustrated and outraged by the slow nature of change at the VA.
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We are capable of creating miracles ourselves and the greatest miracle is to create a masterpiece of joy out of your life with no excuses. The thing I focus on is going straight to heart. I go to mine first because if I don't feel it, you're not going to feel it. I take a deep breath and remind myself that before I give it to you I have to give it to myself.
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Thinking about the heartbreaking number of young children around the world who think they are unwanted and are uncared for can easily keep you awake at night.
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If you find that you have no love but desire to have it, do the works of love and the Lord will see your desire and effort and put love in your heart.