Charles Grandison Finney Quotes
Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end.
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To me, doing a gay pride show is one of the most fun things. My first show that paid more than $10,000 was in a gay club on New Year's Eve in San Francisco.
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But it is a hard, it's a hard profession teaching acting.
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Tiny quails may not seem as impressive as a mammoth turkey, but there is something refreshing about a spread of individual birds on the Christmas table.
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A lot of women in sport tend to take on a very masculine, aggressive look. They want to be perceived as being strong and powerful. I never lost that sense of wanting to retain my femininity.
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Overpaying the banks for their toxic assets could contribute capital, but that may not be politically feasible or attractive.
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Coming from a background of being onstage, you're onstage for two and a half hours and you're in it for the whole time no matter what you're doing. Even if you don't have a line, you have to stay in it.
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Women are just so much tougher and more patient than men are - their capacity for empathy blows me away. And their capacity to deal with stress for long periods of time is also kind of awe inspiring.
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My mom was a housewife and a sponge, who would absorb everything and make it all look like a fairytale when he entered the house. For instance, when he came home, I would always be seen studying with my books open. She always made sure that Dad went back to the shoot happily.
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Being a rock star isn't all it's cracked up to be, let me tell you.
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I do most of my shopping over the Internet because as a busy working mum I can do the supermarket shop when the kids have gone to bed.
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Over the years, I've spent time in Saudi Arabia, the Bekaa Valley, Afghanistan, Jordan, and Kenya, among other vacation hotspots.
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If you try to force yourself into change, then change will never stick.
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Coming down under a parachute is quite different as well. You hit the ground pretty hard, but all the systems work very well to keep it from hurting, so it doesn't even hurt when you hit. It was a great experience to be able to do both.
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What does good in bed mean to me? When I'm sick and I stay home from school propped up with lots of pillows watching TV and my mom brings me soup - that's good in bed.
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Healthcare in the U.S. remains a dire mess, and the Obama presidency, unfortunately, didn't really address that.
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I think for anything to be successful, your problems have to become different problems over time.
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I'm not very complicated.
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Wanting to be an actor and wanting to be famous are different.
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I spent a day in a neck brace on a hospital trolley after falling from a horse and cart in Ireland. All the nurses thought I was a traveler, which made me laugh. Who else comes into a hospital saying they've fallen off a horse and cart?
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Being English definitely gave me some insight into these eccentric Brits puttering around Hollywood.
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Brands must empower their community to be change agents in their own right.
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Consciousness is never experienced in the plural, only in the singular. Not only has none of us ever experienced more than one consciousness, but there is also no trace of circumstantial evidence of this ever happening anywhere in the world. If I say that there cannot be more than one consciousness in the same mind, this seems a blunt tautology - we are quite unable to imagine the contrary...
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My mother couldn't have been happier when I said I was moving to New York.
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Effective prayer is prayer that attains what it seeks. It is prayer that moves God, effecting its end.
