Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.
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I'd thought sexuality was instinctive or natural, but it's profoundly linked to inner security and cultural context.
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I hope that people look at my whole career and appreciate that I've given everything that I've got.
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I want to be frozen on the hope that they'll find whatever I died of and bring me back.
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We should involve the whole world in the handling of this refugee crisis.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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Most fears are basic: fear of the dark, fear of going down in the basement, fear of weird sounds, fear that somebody is waiting for you in your closet. Those kinds of things stay with you no matter what age.
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Midterm elections can be dreadfully boring, unfortunately.
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I remember, growing up, if something big - God forbid - happened, the first jokes you heard on the subject came out of Jersey.
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I liken myself to Henry Ford and the auto industry, I give you 90 percent of what most people need.
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Certainly, I've loved musicals for a while, so I did some short films in college that had musical numbers and things like that, so I've kind of been obsessed with Fred and Ginger and Vincente Minnelli and Stanley Donen and Jaques Demy forever.
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For the U.S., as the largest player in the global environment, unintended consequences are magnified.
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Failure means a stripping away of the inessential.
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Insanity is hereditary; you get it from your children.
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In post offices throughout the United States, Selective Service posters reading 'A Man's Gotta Do What A Man's Gotta Do remind men that only they must register for the draft. If the Post Office had a poster saying 'A Jew's Gotta Do What A Jew's Gotta Do...' or if 'A Woman's Gotta Do...' were written across the body of a pregnant woman...
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Another busy day! So let’s to business. The clock moves forward; wasted time is life defeated!
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Whether they are fit for independence or not remains to be tried. Merit is no qualification for freedom. Bulgars, Afghans, and Tahitans have it. Freedom is enjoyed when you are so well armed, or so turbulent, or inhabit a country so thorny that the expense of your neighbour's occupying you is greater than the profit.
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Don't terrorize. Organize. Don't burn. Give kids a chance to learn … The real answer to race problems in this country is education. Not burning and killing. Be ready. Be qualified. Own something. Be somebody. That's Black Power.
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I wish the Bald Eagle had not been chosen as the representative of our country; he is a bird of bad moral character; like those among men who live by sharping and robbing, he is generally poor, and often very lousy. The turkey is a much more respectable bird.
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There's this American dream to put enough away that you can golf and build a birdhouse or just be in a Barcalounger watching football all day. I'll never be that guy. And I'm not really sure the people who have that are all that happy. Our desires as a man are to work, plow ahead, and overcome conflict.
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I don't see a utopia anywhere for me.
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If there hadn't been women we'd still be squatting in a cave eating raw meat, because we made civilization in order to impress our girlfriends.
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I kind of wanna be pro basketball, pro skateboarder.
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The blues is the foundation for a lot of things. Things have branched off. It's cool how music grows, but the foundation is always there. It's not going anywhere. The blues is always going to be relevant.
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Women still dream and hope, pin their emotions on some man who doesn't reciprocate, and end up in confusion.
