Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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We encourage the growth of women's hockey.
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I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
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I made all their videos, apart from the last two, so if you ever see an Abba video on TV then it's my stuff.
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I've met Dick Syron. I like the guy. He's a man's man kind of character, a real charmer, the kind of guy you'd want to have a beer with, as well as being an economist of considerable repute.
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What literature can and should do is change the people who teach the people who don't read the books.
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I believe the new machine of the Wrights to be the most promising attempt at flight that has yet been made.
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It is my firm belief that it will be in the interests of the United States, especially our economic interests, to pursue comprehensive immigration reform.
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I speak and speak, [...] but the listener retains only the words he is expecting. [...] It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.
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I have always tried to do everything that's been in my power to defend and sustain our institutions. I have demonstrated in my public life that I loyally serve my country and that I love freedom. It has been my sole purpose to propose what I think best for your highest interests, which are to strengthen peace in the future and strengthen our institutions.
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you can't get away from yourself by moving from one place to another.
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It's hard to beat a guy when he's got his mind made up that he's going to win.
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Love must not touch the marrow of the soul. Our affections must be breakable chains that we can cast them off or tighten them.
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I try to concentrate on quality clothing and accessories that are worth having, and to get my people to take fewer trips by air and stay longer each time they travel. It’s more human, especially if they take time to visit an art gallery while there.
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Happiness comes of the capacity to feel deeply, to enjoy simply, to think freely, to risk life, to be needed. which give happiness. Thomas Jefferson We never enjoy perfect happiness; our most fortunate successes are mingled with sadness; some anxieties always perplex the reality of our satisfaction.
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Going into a game against Lew Alcindor later Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is like going into a knife fight and finding there's no blade in your handle.
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I don't think anybody should be subject to any sort of harassment in any way, shape, or form.
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If I'm not playing well, I do get down on myself because I am a perfectionist. So I need someone who believes in me more than I believe in me, someone willing to work as hard as I work. I don't understand what no means or what failure means; I only understand what yes means and try again means.
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As people, [my parents were] very colorful, very talkative, passionate, they really loved each other. But that also meant heated, it meant there was a lot of drama in the house. Which is good for a filmmaker, I think.
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The willingness to be and to have just what God wants us to be and have, nothing more, nothing less, and nothing else, would set our hearts at rest, and we would discover the simpler life, the greater peace.
