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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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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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 never lose a game if the opponent doesn't score.
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Sometimes your worst competitors are the ones which are dying because they do stupid things.
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You ran away and left us to do the job that you could not do.
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The best version of surfing is not competing, I think. It's just... it's perfect. You're perfectly present. You're perfectly in the moment. You're perfectly not thinking about anything else in the world. You're just surfing. You're surfing away with your friends or your family, and that's it. You're just there.
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When I write something simple I'm always really proud of it. When you write something that simple with that much air in it and the whole premise behind it is something pretty obvious - that everybody wants to be happy and free - the song is sort of an exercise in not forgetting that's what you really want and what you really need. We can get caught up in a lot of other stuff.
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In a world of prayer, we are all equal in the sense that each of us is a unique person, with a unique perspective on the world, a member of a class of one.
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Coleridge, poet and philosopher wrecked in a mist of opium.
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There is no need for faith where there is no consciousness of an element of risk.
