Andrew Murray Quotes
God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we know what ought to be done. We ask God first to bless our feeble efforts, instead of absolutely refusing to go unless God go before us.
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If you're doing a prison show, HBO is the absolute best place in the world to be doing that because you're not going to have to do all that, you know, 'Prison Break' stuff where you can't really behave and speak like people do in a maximum-security prison.
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If people think I look good, it's the make-up.
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I expect a tough, hard fight. Liam Smith is coming to win.
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I do see value in music criticism. Most of the criticism I have received over the years has been very good.
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Art should never try to be popular. The public should try to make itself artistic.
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When I came up to New York to do a play, I passed by Julliard, and I was like, 'Oh I heard of this place.' I applied, and ended up getting in.
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Why is it better to love than to be loved? It is surer.
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The voice of the Republican party is up for grabs. It's a contest right now.
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There are three or four places in the country where people think of fashion: One is L.A., obviously. Another is New York. And I think Atlanta has to be in the top five cities where fashion is very big.
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It's a songwriter's dream to have a song recorded and run up the charts.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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Tempus edax rerum.
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The venerable emeritus professors still at Yale when I entered graduate school in the 1960s may have been reserved, puritanical WASPs, but they were men of honor who had given their lives to scholarship. Today in the elite schools, honor and ethics are gone.
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Pride is the emotional reward of achievement. It is not a vice to be overcome but a virtue to be attained.
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What I have learned, above all, is to keep marching forward because the best news is that since chance does play a role, one important factor in success is under our control: the number of at bats, the number of chances taken, the number of opportunities seized.
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Sexism, like racism, goes with us into the next century. I see class warfare as overshadowing both.
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On 'City Music', I wanted there to be grit, and I wanted it to be loose, and I wanted there to be mistakes.
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I'm a goofball, and I have this huge personality, and I used to try to hide that. I used to try to kind of dim my light.
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One must be something to be able to do something.
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Every moment I shape my destiny with a chisel, I am a carpenter of my own soul.
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When you leave this world, will you be known as one who accumulated treasures on earth that you couldn't keep? Or will you be recognized as one who invested treasures in heaven that you couldn't lose?
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Like anything, I think there are some wonderful found footage movies, and there are some less good. Certainly when it's done well, I really love it. I really love it as a genre.
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The parts of a film should be in proportion to the whole, and a long film pasted together out of quick little scenes makes me dizzy.
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God has a plan for His Church upon earth. But alas! we too often make our plan, and we think that we know what ought to be done. We ask God first to bless our feeble efforts, instead of absolutely refusing to go unless God go before us.
