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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A negative attitude toward others can never bring me success.
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You have an excellent heart, my friend - but your grey cells are in a deplorable condition.
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I was 175 pounds at 13 years old and 5 feet tall.
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The feeling of being valuable is a cornerstone of self-discipline because when you consider yourself valuable you will take care of yourself- including things like using your time well. In this way, self-discipline is self-caring.
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I'm an average American. As I joke, I'm the average Mexican American Jewish Italian mayor of the most diverse city in 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.
