Elder Paisios of Mount Athos Quotes
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I wish my school days could have dragged on a little longer, or that I could go back and do it later in life.
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To create something new is both thrilling and excruciating at the same time. It's great to have all these choices in front of you, and to have the writers in the room so you know exactly what they meant. But the downside is you want so badly not to screw it up!
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We are going to have to discuss with and seek the opinions of other countries. We don't wish to offend anyone, least of all a country we hold in such deep regard as the United Kingdom.
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We should not underestimate the ability of people to do wrong if they want to do so.
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They thought that athletes that worked out with my system wouldn't be able to throw a ball because they'd be too muscle bound. Those are the misconceptions I had to go through for about 40 years.
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I love doing the dishes... not for the act of cleaning but because I get to put my headphones in, listen to music, and ignore the world for an hour, and it's totally acceptable because I'm cleaning.
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It took a lot of blood, sweat and tears to get to where we are today, but we have just begun. Today we begin in earnest the work of making sure that the world we leave our children is just a little bit better than the one we inhabit today.
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When you're young, you don't think very far ahead. You just think in terms of the next day, the next week, the next competition. You don't think about injuries that could threaten your long-term health.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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I'm scared of any fighter I've ever fought because they are some dangerous people to be dealing with. That's also where the anxiety comes from.
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I'm not really that interested in going back to playing small supporting roles.
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My job is to engage, entertain, work out my life, tell a certain truth.
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And I have been able to establish this sort of decent reputation as being a decent character actor.
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Liberalism will beat totalitarianism by killing it softly, not by mimicking it.
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I've always believed human blood is red because it really needs to draw attention to itself.
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You don't go dancing in the day. You don't go golfing in the night.
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Christ told his disciples not to be anxious about tomorrow, but he never said not to consider tomorrow. Intelligent problem solving demands careful consideration of the future effects of present solutions.
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nobody gets a free ride. And nobody should get a free ride.
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By the end of this decade, a majority of our Navy and Air Force fleets will be based out of the Pacific, because the United States is and always will be a Pacific power.
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In my humble opinion, preserving racial purity isn't a worthwhile goal. You should be able to date whomever, whenever, wherever without the threat of a backlash.
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Sometimes you have to kind of keep proving that you're improvising. That's the game, or the goal, of long-form TV improv, is that you have to kind of keep reminding and showing people that you're improvising, because they won't believe you really.
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If it be an evil to judge rashly or untruly any single man, how much a greater sin it is to condemn a whole people.
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The goal is to rise spiritually, not simply to avoid sin.
