Charles de Foucauld Quotes
You have only one model, Jesus. Follow, follow, follow him, step by step, imitating him, sharing his life in every way.
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I think beauty can be everywhere.
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I had no interest in sports so I didn't make friends in that traditional way where kids are in public school and they go and they join clubs, and play sports. So I kind of had to find my own way to make friends and get attention and so I just was the class clown.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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Revolutions are the locomotives of history.
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I could have lived off all the male careers in my family. Everybody was always getting ovations, but I was in the wings.
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I have never retired - I have averaged 40 working weeks a year since 1933.
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The White House is the people's house. When you do historical restoration, that must be what it is.
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I strive to be brief, and I become obscure.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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I have good spacial awareness, and I'm pretty comfortable with a sword.
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I submitted manuscripts to publishers. This was not so much a feeling that I should be published as a wish to escape the feared and hated drudgery of normal work.
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I'm driven by history and our past. That's why I work in gold. It's in your veins. We've been lusting after gold since the beginning of time. God, glory, and gold.
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The kings of Spain brought us the conquistadores and masters, whose footprints remained in the circular land grants assigned to those searching for gold in the sands of rivers, an abusive and shameful form of exploitation, traces of which can be noted from the air in many places around the country.
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Life is a succession of lessons which must be lived to be understood. All is riddle, and the key to a riddle is another riddle.
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I honestly don't even know how I got into acting. It happened so quickly because my mom and sister used to do commercials, and apparently when I was little I would unbuckle myself from the stroller and crash their auditions.
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People are always saying, English, English, English rose, and I just feel so completely different.
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When I was younger, I just thought about playing in the NBA.
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When I was about 14, my family emigrated from England to Australia, and we decided to stop in Bali on the way through.
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Nobody is weirder than your own family, and I think teenagers feel that particularly acutely; the fact that you can walk five steps ahead of your parents and still be in the same family, but refuse to acknowledge it.
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For a long time, I have waited for the opportunity to fight Mr. Roy Jones. This is my personal goal and dream.
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Love gives without taking.
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You have only one model, Jesus. Follow, follow, follow him, step by step, imitating him, sharing his life in every way.
