Charles Caldwell Ryrie Quotes
The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
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The more I compose, the more I know that I don't know it all. I think it's a good way to start. If you think you know it all, the work becomes a repetition of what you've already done. I try to make sure that I don't repeat my music.
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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My diet is mostly chicken and fish. I make sure I get a lot of vegetables, a lot of fruit. I am a big fruit man, I am a vegetable man anyway. And I also get a lot of rest. That's the key I may be up early, but I'm in bed early too.
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Perfect partners don't exist. Perfect conditions exist for a limited time in which partnerships express themselves best.
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When I was in the ring at the Olympics, it was my father's words that I was hearing, not the coaches'. 'I never listened to what the coaches said. I would call my father and he would give me advice from prison.
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You do a show to be a hit and hopefully run a couple of years.
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I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
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I came face-to-face with a gorilla which was quite good, but it was a 10-hour trek in bad weather, up hills, covered in mud, with mosquitoes everywhere and when we got there the gorilla's just sat there doing nowt.
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Because I was always a fat child, I got fatter and fatter, and I ended up 18 stone and with a 40-inch waist.
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We have international standards regulating everything from t-shirts to toys to tomatoes. There are international regulations for furniture. That means there are common standards for the global trade in armchairs but not the global trade in arms.
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The more a general is accustomed to place heavy demands on his soldiers, the more he can depend on their response.
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I'm very picky, and I'm never 100% happy with the work I do; I hate watching myself and hearing my voice.
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One of the strategies for doing first-person is to make the narrator very knowing, so that the reader is with somebody who has a take on everything they observe.
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I would like to think that I curse expertly - it's not something that I do without considering it. I never curse without intending to; it's not something I resort to because of inability to articulate or find the correct word.
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I was with Karen Carpenter in Vegas. We were invited to Elvis's dressing room and I had to drag her away. She was such a sweet girl but I could see what was going on. I met him a few times after that, and he flirted very heavily with me. I was supposed to do a movie with him and that was stopped right away by my husband!
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I feel a little bit like a drill sergeant sometimes. Some elements of my personality, as a parent, I'm not real crazy about.
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Kinsey kick started a lot in shocking people with how much homosexual activity there is.
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Sanctification is not regeneration.
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The beach game taught me great lessons about how to elevate the play of my teammate, or teammates, and how to anticipate and expect the ball so much more than the indoor game ever could. It taught me - even forced me - to be a much better all-around player. That allowed me to help our USA Olympic Team in many more ways than I ever could have otherwise.
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Paradise is full of idiots who believe it exists.
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It seems to me (said she) that you are in some brown study.
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We also can't try to take over and rebuild every country that falls into crisis. That's not leadership; that's a recipe for quagmire, spilling American blood and treasure that ultimately weakens us. It's the lesson of Vietnam, of Iraq - and we should have learned it by now.
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My kids are my life and the thought of someone taking them away from me is my worst nightmare.
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The Bible is the greatest of all books; to study it the noblest of all pursuits; to understand it, the highest of all goals.
