Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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This is something I've wanted to do my whole life is play baseball, and I think just the opportunity to put on a big-league uniform every day is just... you know, people dream of it, but not everybody gets to do it. I'm thankful every day I get to do it.
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I suppose anybody just losing it and sputtering curses is pretty funny. But I think it would be more of a challenge, much more of a challenge, to make a cursing dad funny.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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I … started out to become a jazz pianist; in the meantime I started singing and I sang the way I felt and that's just the way it came out.
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My heart is warm with friends I make, And better friends I'll not be knowing, Yet there isn't a train I wouldn't take, No matter where it's going.
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A doubtful balance is made between truth and pleasure, and... the knowledge of one and the feeling of the other stir up a combat the success of which is very uncertain, since, in order to judge of it, it would be necessary to know all that passes in the innermost spirit of the man, of which man himself is scarcely ever conscious.
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In spite the mountains of books written about art, no precise definition of art has been constructed. And the reason for this is that the conception of art has been based on the conception of beauty.
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I think acting is therapeutic for me.
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It is clear that the economy has not gotten better for everyone.
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Anybody can act good to be around when they are doing really well.
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Turkey is widely envied while there are very serious troubles in the world economy.
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I don't have the relationship that I thought I did with my fans. Maybe I did early on when I had a couple thousand fans, but it's not like us anymore. It's the idea of Notch and the 'Minecraft' community.
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Being in the dark, there's a real weight to it. It's heavy.
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I don't really shout that much.
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As cheesy as it sounds, truly every day is Earth Day.
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I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.
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I've known Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles and they're two of the most independent people I've ever known in my life, and the thought we could somehow bend their views I find really beyond my capacity to believe.
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If Wellington epitomizes the English gentleman, Eisenhower epitomizes the natural American gentleman.
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You have to be 100 percent comfortable with yourself and who you are. You'll have unflattering pictures posted on the Internet for all to see, so you have to be able to handle yourself and stay true to yourself.
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Through my work and travels I have been lucky enough to have been exposed to various eclectic cuisine running the gamut from small local cafes to iconic five-star restaurants.
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The time of our production had absolutely nothing to do with politics or tactics.
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Memories and loneliness look backward, fear looks around, but faith always looks forward.
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My faith has no bed to sleep upon but omnipotence.
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There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
