Edmund Clowney Quotes
You dare not lift your hands to place God’s name in blessing on his people until you have first clasped them in penitent petition for his grace.
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Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.
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No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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We Europeans have a long tradition of cultural and economic relationship with Iran.
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We've reached a very low-level equilibrium where it's not clear whose interest it is in to develop Africa... It's not in the interest of those in the aid industry to develop Africa because then there'd be no more industry and 500,000 people would lose their jobs. The only people whose interest it is in is Africans, but they have no voice.
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A traveller on foot in this country seems to be considered as a sort of wild man or out-of-the way being, who is stared at, pitied, suspected, and shunned by everybody that meets him.
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I'm bringing what I've always wanted: film quality work on television. That's the way it should be.
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I'm an optimist; I always hope that each new script is going to be a great story.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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I believe that all men and women will be saved.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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Filipinos want beauty. I have to look beautiful so that the poor Filipinos will have a star to look at from their slums.
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When I was a child, my father taught me to put up my fists like a boy and to be prepared to defend myself at all times.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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When confronted with two alternatives, life and death, one is to choose death without hesitation.
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I cry for a lot of good things that happen. I cry a lot, okay?
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In adolescence I started to find out about Robert Wilson because I saw Lou Reed's "Timerocker" at [the Brooklyn Academy of Music]. I started getting into Jim Jarmusch and knew that my uncle was a friend of his. I pieced together parts of his life in high school and college, which lead me to his story in a funny way.
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For six years profound silence was mistaken for profound wisdom.
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Grace renders us like God and a partaker of the divine nature.
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I am writing about people who are alive in the city of New York during mid-20th-century America. And these people are like a character in a play or they are figures in a short story or a novel.
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To do more, is not necessarily to do better.
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Necessity reforms the poor, and satiety reforms the rich.
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You dare not lift your hands to place God’s name in blessing on his people until you have first clasped them in penitent petition for his grace.
