Charles Caldwell Ryrie Quotes
One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.
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My aunt is a newscaster in Lubbock, Texas, and she got a letter that said, 'Natalie Maines will be shot dead at their show in Dallas, Texas,' with the date of our concert. It was freaky to see that in writing.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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Craig Newmark looks like the kind of guy who would help you move your apartment, sell your furniture, get a job, or help you find that cute girl you saw on the subway.
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We live in a world now where everything is tweeted and Instagrammed and tagged and now, God help us, Vined. Calling out grievances over Twitter has become an industry norm.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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You know, I was a community activist, so I'm used to standing out in front of an elected official's office and protesting.
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I probably follow all sports a little bit. I like hockey quite a bit. I like football. I like college basketball when it gets down to March Madness. I like baseball. I enjoy them all. I watch them all.
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What I can tell you is that for Puerto Rico being such a small island, it has culturally impacted the entire world.
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I think every girl's dream is to find a bad boy at the right time, when he wants to not be bad anymore.
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I have no idea what goes on in another person's mind. As a legislator, I need to be good at persuading people, counting votes and getting to 50 percent plus one. I don't go back and say, 'Why did this person get to the right position?' It's only, 'Are you yes or are you no?'
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I'm somebody who likes codes and ciphers and chases and artwork and architecture, and all the things you find in a Robert Langdon thriller.
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The Barenboim Foundation has nothing to do with politics.
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It makes me feel good that I can now sit there and go, I've worked with Jack Nicholson, Al Pacino, all the great actors that I've worked with... Sir Ben Kingsley.
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The ability to convince people of the wackiest notions - and both parties can do it - it's part of the dumbing down of America that's really highly problematic.
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I don't spend a lot of time online. My mother's really good at picking out if she sees a really great review, and she'll forward it to me. She's like my little Internet filter. It's always nice to see something going up; if I want to find something on Nathan Fillion, I do know where to look, but I've got a nice little delivery system in my mom.
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I'm by no means a pianist. I think that's safe to say, but the piano, for me, I would say it's the enabler. It gave me what I needed and gives me what I need in order to write a song. And I think playing or improvising on the piano is where I feel most liberated and sort of less conscious of all my insecurities or inadequacies.
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You're defined by your older brothers' or sisters' music.
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I learned so much about recording and about singing on records from Ken Nelson.
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Two bats were hanging up in a cave and one said to the other, 'When I'm older, I hope I don't become incontinent'.
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I'm not nearly as important as I used to think I was. It's a wonderful discovery.
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There's no New York rapper who's out that is competing with me because first of all, I'm the best.
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Life under a good government is rarely dramatic; life under a bad government is always so.
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A learned man is a sedentary, concentrated solitary enthusiast, who searches through books to discover some particular grain of truth upon which he has set his heart. If the passion for reading conquers him, his gains dwindle and vanish between his fingers. A reader, on the other hand, must check the desire for learning at the outset; if knowledge sticks to him well and good, but to go in pursuit of it, to read on a system, to become a specialist or an authority, is very apt to kill what suits us to consider the more humane passion for pure and disinterested reading.
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One be covetous when he has little, much or anything between, for covetousness comes from the heart, not from the circumstances of life.
