Nikolaj Velimirovic Quotes
Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes away.
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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There was this moment, particularly after I had my first child, where I felt like, 'I don't know if I'll ever make a record, or if this is always going to be something just floating around in my head.'
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My heart has been stolen too - but I've gone and got it back every single time!
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I found a certain kind of music congenial to me; it never occurred to me to write music that was academically acceptable.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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God screens us evermore from premature ideas.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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With every social media, there's hate and things like that.
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Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.
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An army marches on its stomach.
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My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
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An injured lion still wants to roar.
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If Virtue & Knowledge are diffus'd among the People, they will never be enslav'd. This will be their great Security.
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When I said, 'I feel like everything I tried to do is there', it is less because of what I did than it is a case of Michael keeping his word. Sometimes he'd launch into a discourse, a convoluted discourse about something or other, and I had no idea what he was saying. I'd tease him about it, 'What on earth are you talking about?'
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The destructive character knows only one watchword: make room. And only one activity: clearing away. His need for fresh air and open space is stronger than any hatred.
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Für die Romantiker und für die spekulative Philosophie bedeutete der Terminus kritisch: objektiv produktiv, schöpferisch aus Besonnenheit. Kritisch sein hieß die Erhebung des Denkens über alle Bindungen so weit treiben, daß gleichsam zauberisch aus der Einsicht in das Falsche der Bindungen die Erkenntnis der Wahrheit sich schwang.
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Wage theft, worker rights and workplace discrimination should not be swept under the rug. The United States cannot have a functional economy where all the gains go to the corporate class while all the pain goes to regular workers.
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My father was an agnostic.
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Surround yourself with people and things that inspire you. Learn everything you can.
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I don't think I'll ever be comfortable being considered a sex symbol, especially after you work with someone like George Clooney.
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We state with a unified voice that religions through which Almighty God sought to bring happiness to mankind should not be turned into instruments to cause misery,
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Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.
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What we aim to do is calm the spirit and get in touch with the source from which everything comes, removing any trace of malice or egotism. If you spend too much time trying to find out what is good or bad about someone else, you’ll forget your own soul and end up exhausted and defeated by the energy you have wasted in judging others.
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Let us be ashamed of our slowness in thanking God when He gives, and of our quickness in grumbling at Him when He takes away.
