Trip Lee (William Lee Barefield III) Quotes
Here's the grey rule: embrace things that lead you closer to Jesus, and reject things that lead you away from Jesus.
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I've always done 20 things at once. It's my way of staying alive, not to keep one dish cooking, but several dishes going. And I'm pretty organized.
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Islamism is an ideology that seeks to impose any version of Islam over society.
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Constant togetherness is fine - but only for Siamese twins.
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I'm just an ordinary, walking-down-the-street, mother of two children who sings for her supper.
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I've kind of blocked it out, but a good friend affectionately reminded me that yes, I was a dork. I was not a cool kid in high school.
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Drawing is the honesty of the art. There is no possibility of cheating. It is either good or bad.
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Even my mother told me: 'You are a handsome woman, but you're not pretty. Pretty girls don't have those big bones.'
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An excess of boringness does not make a thing interesting except in the driest academic sense. A place is not boring if you have to look really hard for something which is interesting. If there is absolutely nothing interesting about any particular place, then that is a perfectly interesting and quintessentially un-boring place.
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The romantic intoning, the declaimed clairvoyance Are parts of apotheosis, appropriate And of its nature, the idiom thereof.
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It’s almost the not-knowing that’s sexy. When the look is too contrived... Trying to assimilate a look to be sexy to me is pretty transparent in the first place. So... somebody who just kind of stumbles into a sexy look... who’s not been thinking about fashion at all...
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To have noughtIs to have all things without care or thought!
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The test for whether or not you can hold a job should not be in the arrangement of your chromosomes.
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'suffering has been stronger than all other teaching, and has taught me to understand what your heart used to be. I have been bent and broken, but - I hope - into a better shape.'
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I'm a pathetic haggler and often give more than the original price out of a misplaced sense of duty.
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I have to laugh because despite the destruction, we cannot let 'them' steal our pleasure. That is always the theme of my performances: I'm here to thrive, not just to survive.
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The bond between the United States and Britain has always been strong. It has survived through war and peace, periods of prosperity and economic hardship.
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I don't really get hate mail, which surprises me, but people have better things to do than to write hate mail to somebody who writes a book about hating everything, I guess.
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The eye is much more dynamic than any camera.
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In 'Bayou Magic,' I write about African goddess-mermaids who accompanied slaves to America.
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Part of me loves to control and to exert power, but it's not the best part of me at all. What I am slowly learning is that allowing others to have power too makes us a better organisation - many brains are simply better than one.
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He (Jesus) knew that the old eye-for-eye philosophy would leave everyone blind. He did not seek to overcome evil with evil. He overcame evil with good. Although crucified by hate, he responded with aggressive love.
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Kids need to see that Jesus is the best thing that ever happened to us. And they need to know it can happen to them.
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Here's the grey rule: embrace things that lead you closer to Jesus, and reject things that lead you away from Jesus.
