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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Not the fruit of experience, but experience itself, is the end.
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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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Power is not just political. It can be cultural; it can be spiritual.
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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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Children, I always think, are just putting on a performance of being naive and not understanding anything. I have worked with children in films, and they're treated as adults and they just drop the pretense of being children.
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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 want to play many different characters.
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Both of my kids have my sense of humor - they're definitely entertaining.
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When I was a kid, we would get McDonalds on Christmas Eve, and that was a big deal because the closest one to the south side of Chicago was a 35 minute drive away. I remember opening the bag and smelling those fries, and even now when I smell them, it reminds me of Christmas Eve.
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Dreams are nothing but incoherent ideas, occasioned by partial or imperfect sleep.
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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.
