Washington Gladden Quotes
The substance of all realities is in this religion of Jesus Christ; but it can be real only to those who will do His will.
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Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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But, I couldn't live without creation gymnastics.
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From a very early age, I made my decisions based on careers that I admire. The one thing that all the actresses I love have in common is that they have diversity in their careers.
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I'd always wanted to write books ever since I was a kid.
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Growing up, me and my brother, we were kind of exact opposites. We were completely yin and yang. He was more rough and tumble, and I just wanted to play with my girlfriends.
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I actually did go through severe depression and anxiety attacks where I couldn't sleep for weeks. It was definitely several months of being not myself.
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Don't let the past steal your present. This is the message of Christmas: We are never alone.
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I'm very devoted to my kids - I'm completely blind to their faults.
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I'm very, very involved in charities involving youth.
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Just because you're not famous, doesn't mean you're not good.
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Rey's parents left her at 5, and we meet her when she's late teens or early 20s, and for someone to keep hopeful that there's a better life to come, I think, is astounding. Though she starts off alone, she very much finds her place in a group of people, and that's lovely.
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I think the struggle, whenever you make a film or television movie based on a real person's life, is finding a dramatic arc that will hold an audience's attention.
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It can be tough when you're on the road, but I think food is meant to be enjoyed, so whenever we go to a new place, we look for the specialty item there.
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Prep school, public school, university: these now tedious influences standardize English autobiography, giving the educated Englishman the sad if fascinating appearance of a stuffed bird of sly and beady eye in some old seaside museum. The fixation on school has become a class trait. It manifests itself as a mixture of incurious piety and parlour game.
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As centuries of dictators have known, an illiterate crowd is easiest to rule; since the craft of reading cannot be untaught once it has been acquired, the second-best recourse is to limit its scope.
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Johnny stopped and leaned over, partly from curiosity, but also to disguise the fact that his sexual efforts could not compete with the mention of such a large sum of money.
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One way to evaluate your own reputation is to think about what would be said of you at your eulogy.
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Christian life isn’t a one-person race. It’s a relay. You are not alone; you’re part of a team assembled by our unstoppable God to achieve his eternal purposes.
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I have come to value liberated minds as the supreme good of life on earth.
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I have so much respect for him. He really just does what his heart is telling him to do. He was amazing to work with and really just a brilliant guy.
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The soul of man is divided into three parts, intelligence, reason, and passion. Intelligence and passion are possessed by other animals, but reason by man alone.
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The substance of all realities is in this religion of Jesus Christ; but it can be real only to those who will do His will.
