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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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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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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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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I'm playing first base and pitching and hitting. I feel like I'm almost better than I've ever been. It's like, 'You're going to walk away like this?'
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I feel like every time you think you really understand how deep the seductive power of evil is, it always proves to be one step deeper than you thought possible.
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It's the duty of any government: where there is disregard of the law, that law and order must be instituted.
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To the extent that someone goes out to criticize another woman about hair, makeup, silliness like that - unless you're talking about a makeup artist or something, really stop and think about what you're doing and why you're doing it.
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When you're in a spacecraft, you need to know what things you can touch and what things you shouldn't touch!
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Having a strong race lens means you understand racism is threaded through and institutionalized in all of our systems and our very perceptions, threaded through how someone looks at you, treats you, thinks about you and your potential.
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I bought a house, and I've been decorating it.
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After hurting myself like that, I could not go back immediately to racing. I was in no condition, mentally or physically. That helped me to strengthen myself to go through the hard times that were ahead with my business, and to be successful.
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I love the theater community and theater life, and would love to figure out the distinctive differences between Broadway and the West End.
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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.
