Charles L. Whitfield Quotes
They are often in a shame-based system, which attempts to cover over and even destroy the True Self.
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There's always going to be a part of me that worries about not looking as slim as other actresses.
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The universe seems neither benign nor hostile, merely indifferent.
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No religion can long continue to maintain its purity when the church becomes the subservient vassal of the state.
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That is the definition of faith - acceptance of that which we imagine to be true, that which we cannot prove.
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Have I seen The Commitments? I was obsessed with that movie. I just watched it again about two weeks ago.
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Well, my husband is supportive of my work, like advocating for dialogue between cultures on YouTube.
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I wash my face day and night. I actually really love Dr. Lancer face wash, and I also love Neutrogena.
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If life isn't about human beings and living in harmony, then I don't know what it's about.
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What's really interesting and fun to explore is not just the falling in love and everything being great, but the obstacles to falling in love.
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I don't golf. I've never golfed. I will never golf.
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What is most needed in Darfur is an international peacekeeping and protection presence, and this is what the Sudanese government most wants to avoid.
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I'm obsessed with brows, so Revlon's ColorStay Eyebrow Liner is a must, and the Just Bitten Kissable Balm Stain in Rendezvous is another obsession.
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I always looked up there, because I remember a time when the only things on the walls in Fenway were the Jimmy Fund sign and the retired numbers. Never in a million years did you think you'd ever be up there with those guys.
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Ultimately, what interests me is using exotic sounds in my songs.
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There are certain people who elicit a really passionate response. It's crazy. That's my Alexander Wang theory.
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This is why we feel that democracy's important: because democracy allows you to have small explosions and therefore avoid the bigger explosions.
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When I'm hungry, I eat. When I'm thirsty, I drink. When I feel like saying something, I say it.
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I believe mysticism is a very serious endeavor. One must be equipped for it. One doesn't study calculus before studying arithmetic. In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism. This isn't instant coffee. There is no instant mysticism.
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When I was 15 years old, my cousin and I formed a singing group called The Altaires. And, because we became the most popular singing group in the Tri-State area, the rest of the group convinced me I should play the guitar - even though I didn't own one! So what happened was, my stepfather actually made my first electric guitar for me for $23!
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Everything is grounded in mystery. Everything is swimming, and the stable does not exist. Life is a series of guesses, and there is mystery in a match. The commonplace is the habitual, and the habitual is a mystery that has grown stale from sense-insistence. Life undulates; there is no such thing as a level; a straight line is a myth, and all directions are indirections.
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The Son of God did not want to be seen and found in heaven. Therefore he descended from heaven into this humility and came to us in our flesh, laid himself into the womb of his mother and into the manger and went on to the cross. This was the ladder that he placed on earth so that we might ascend to God on it. This is the way you must take.
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most economists, like doctors, are reluctant to make predictions, and those who make them are seldom accurate. The economy, like the human body, is a highly complex system whose workings are not thoroughly understood.
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Christmas cookies can't help but be retro - they are memory first, sugar-flour-egg-redhot-gumdrop-sparkle reality second.
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They are often in a shame-based system, which attempts to cover over and even destroy the True Self.
