Chris Sligh Quotes
Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you.
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To me, country music has always been the home for a great song.
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The beauty of life is in people who feel some obligation to enhance life. Without that, we're only half alive.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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We can only learn to know ourselves and do what we can - namely, surrender our will and fulfill God's will in us.
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When I drive through a field, I want to see green grass sometimes, and I don't want to see black and white.
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Watergate just happened to come along at the same time as the demand for honesty in relations between the sexes, in advertising, in ecology, in almost everything. It just stumbled into that great big elephant trap that had already been built for it.
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I wrote my first book when I was in my late thirties.
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Leadership must be likeable, affable, cordial, and above all emotional. The fashion of authoritarian leadership is gone. Football is about life. You can't be angry all day.
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It was interesting to shoot history as it happens, without anyone demanding a huge story.
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She sounded how you'd expect talking to a tree to sound - bored out of her mind.
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This is a budget that does not protect the vulnerable, it doesn't protect the jobs of today and it doesn't create the jobs that we need for tomorrow.
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The American public was lied to about the Vietnam War month by month by each of these five administrations Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon. It's a tribute to the American public that their leaders perceived that they had to be lied to. It's no tribute to us that it was so easy to fool the public.
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I have always noticed that deeply and truly religious persons are fond of a joke, and I am suspicious of those who aren’t.
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We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.
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J'ai toujours préféré la folie des passions à la sagesse de l'indifférence.
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Fire itself is very beautiful, and there's an attachment to fire that firefighters have.
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I don't go by or change my attitude based on what people say. At the end of the day, they, too, are judging me from their perspective. I would rather be myself and let people accept me for what I am than be somebody who I am not, just because I want people's approval.
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That's why I love theatre, because things happen in the moment. I think you work without being conscious that you're working.
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To bring a healthy child into this world, raise them right and watch them grow is the biggest miracle there is.
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And she loved a man who was made out of nothing. A few hours without him and right away she’d be missing him with her whole body, sitting in her office surrounded by polyethylene and concrete and thinking of him. And every time she’d boil water for coffee in her ground-floor office, she’d let the steam cover her face, imagining it was him stroking her cheeks, her eyelids and she’d wait for the day to be over, so she could go to her apartment building, climb the flight of stairs, turn the key in the door, and find him waiting for her, naked and still between the sheets of her empty bed.
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Pride is the chief cause in the decline in the number of husbands and wives.
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“I worry about you,” he finally said to Free. “I’m afraid that you’re going to break your heart, going up against the world.” “No.” The wind caught her hair and sent it swirling behind her. “I’m going to break the world.
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Empty me of the selfishness inside, every vain ambition and the poison of my pride, and any foolish thing my heart holds to, Lord empty me of me so I can be filled with you.
