Edmund Clowney Quotes
People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.
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Growth is painful. Change is painful. But, nothing is as painful as staying stuck where you do not belong.
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I cannot control what goes on in another lane and this is how I focus on the Games. There is no point in being nervous of other swimmers. It's just about focusing on yourself and what you need to do in order to perform at your best.
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Ten men waiting for me at the door? Send one of them home, I'm tired.
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If you do not love yourself, well, you cannot do anything well, that's my philosophy.
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I'm a self-taught guitarist, but I have a classical music background.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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It is just as important to set apart time for the development of our aesthetic faculties as for cultivating the money-getting instinct. A man cannot live by bread alone. His higher life demands an impalpable food.
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Everywhere I go, from malls to restaurants to sold-out tours overseas and back, everywhere I've been, I get nothing but love.
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One interesting thing about jazz, or art in general, but jazz especially is such an individual art form in the sense that improvisation is such a big part of it, so it feels like it should be less soldiers in an army and more like free spirits melding. And yet, big band jazz has a real military side to it.
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I think that a good mountaineer is usually a sensible mountaineer.
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Publishing is a business, and I completely understand it. But when you don't have to depend on writing for your identity or your income, you can do whatever you want.
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God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
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In art, S. Bridget is usually represented with her perpetual flame as a symbol, sometimes with a column of fire, said to have been seen above her head when she took the veil.
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America is a knowledge-based society, where information counts as much as material resources. Therefore those with the power to define what qualifies as knowledge - to determine what are the accepted facts - wield the greatest social and political power.
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I would sit on the street corners in my hometown of Indianola, Mississippi, and I would play. And, generally, I would start playing gospel songs.
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Chances are if I am the one to cosign people, they will become a big part of the industry.
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The Russians have been waging wars with these separatists since the 19th century, but for obvious reasons, Chechen separatist terrorism tends to be carried out by Chechens.
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A nickel ain't worth a dime anymore.
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I want to travel overseas and help out people all over the world.
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But the federal government, our collective government, has responsibilities that none of these other levels of government can fulfill; and chief among these is national defense.
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That's the sort of simplistic thing we'd like to avoid, and we're not maximizing the use of our forces to best efficiency
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People who do not worship are swept into a vast restlessness, epidemic in the world, with no steady direction and no sustaining purpose.
