Carol Kent Quotes
Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
Jackson Brundage
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I am practically in the employ of Mr. Nobel. I have to meet everyone he sends my way.
Naguib Mahfouz
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All reactionaries are paper tigers.
Mao Zedong
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
Madonna Breakfast Club
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I did some research once on the way people in the past imagined the year 2000. They tended to picture the things they already had getting more sophisticated - flying cars, self-cleaning windows. And the folks in the early 1900s had a wildly optimistic estimate of the future of pneumatic tubes.
Gail Collins
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My spiritual evolution I would describe as journey from literalism to figuratism. I now see all religious texts as pointing to an ineffable truth.
Maggie Rowe
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For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.
Kat Edmonson
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There are only two forces in the world, the sword and the spirit. In the long run the sword will always be conquered by the spirit.
Napoleon Bonaparte
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I'm sure other people in the business have considered reasons why they're doing what they're doing, but I do think that if you're gay you have a responsibility to come out.
Rachel Maddow
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All eyes are on you when you're modeling and acting, and I just didn't want the attention when I wasn't working. But as I've gotten older, I've become more comfortable with my body and am taking more fashion risks.
Carey Lowell
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I stay away from the elf roles; I stay away from playing a leprechaun. All the roles I try to do are something that an average actor would do.
Verne Troyer
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Vitia erunt donec homines
Tacitus
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I have pondered long, and I know now that only the pure of heart forgive the thirst that leads to dead waters. And only the sure of foot can give a hand to him who stumbles.
Kahlil Gibran
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When you are older, you will learn that the first and foremost thing which any ordinary person does is nothing.
Eliezer Yudkowsky
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As we maintain the vigil of peace, we must remember that justice is a vigil, too - a vigil we must keep in our own streets and schools and among the lives of all our people - so that those who died here on their native soil shall not have died in vain.
Lyndon B. Johnson
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A rap is a tweaked version of comedy, because comedy came first. People weren't spitting before they were doing comedy. Comedy has been relevant for years. It's the same art form, pretty much. Discovering that and applying it, I think that has made my stand-up better.
Jay Pharoah
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Hey, it's a miracle to have a career in Hollywood. But it doesn't begin to sum me up.
Mary Steenburgen
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We have to see that the human person needs the infinite. If God's not there, if the infinite isn't available, the human person creates its own paradises, giving the appearance of 'infinitude' that can only be a lie.
Pope Benedict XVI
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I would defend the liberty of consenting adult creationists to practice whatever intellectual perversions they like in the privacy of their own homes; but it is also necessary to protect the young and innocent.
Arthur C. Clarke
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Film-makers must decide what story to tell and how to tell it.
Jack Valenti
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Analytical philosophy was very interesting. It always struck me as being very interesting and full of tremendous intellectual curiosities. It is wonderful to see the mind at work in such an intense manner, but, for me, it was still too far removed from my own issues.
Cornel West
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And he departed from our sight that we might return to our hearts and find him there. For he left us, and behold, he is here.
Saint Augustine
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Growth takes time. God knows that. I know that. And to my surprise, His abundance is mine in the process - not as a prize at the end.
Carol Kent