Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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You are rich if and only if money you refuse tastes better than money you accept.
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I got into television, and I'm a television guy, so I've never really had a movie career.
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This is what's sick about living in L.A. My eight-year-old daughter will point to a woman and say, 'Look! That woman's had too much Botox.' She spots them because they all look a bit like Lord Voldemort from 'Harry Potter.'
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I'm afraid that I won't do a good job when I go into an audition.
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When a guy tells me I'm cute, it's not something desirable. Cute is more like what you want your pet to be.
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I don't like movies about serial killers, necessarily; it's too real and unpleasant for me.
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Traditional copyright has been that you can't make a full copy of somebody's work without their permission.
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I would love to do Shakespeare in New York.
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I keep my horses out in the open, but when I was working the ranches, I had to clean the stalls. It was a horrible job.
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The great champions were always vicious competitors. You never lose respect for a man who is a vicious competitor, and you never hate a man you respect. I don't like Rod Laver because he's such a vicious competitor, but I don't dislike him.
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When I see old photos of me on the beach I don't look too bad... but it's hard trying to breathe in for such a long time when I spot the photographers!
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The books of C.S. Lewis had a very profound, indirect effect on me.
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If I wasn't a pro-athlete, I would probably eat any dessert dish every day!
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Banks operate like a man who either wears his trousers round his chest, stifling breathing, as now, or round his ankles, exposing his assets. We want their trousers tied round their middle: steady lending growth; particularly to productive British business, especially small scale enterprise.
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It is a fair summary of history to say that the safeguards of liberty have been forged in controversies involving not very nice people.
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Although we have, in theory, abolished human slavery, recognized women's rights, and stopped child labor, we continue to enslave other species who, if we simply pay attention, show quite clearly that they experience parental love, pain, and the desire for freedom, just as we do.
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There are good people in the lobbying industry. Lobbyists can serve a very useful purpose.
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It will take some time before a fully-fledged government, equivalent to that of a normal nation state, can be established ... The signs are, however, more hopeful than they were.
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I wonder... if the Republican Party really wants to be branded right now as the party of tax cuts and torture? I mean that's what they're selling.
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An eye for an eye only ends up making the whole world blind.
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In 1957, when I was in second grade, black children integrated Central High School in Little Rock, Arkansas. We watched it on TV. All of us watched it. I don't mean Mama and Daddy and Rocky. I mean all the colored people in America watched it, together, with one set of eyes.
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Words should have the power to inform and to move, not the power to send people scurrying away. But if you attach that much emotional energy to a word, it gives people the power to hurt each other.
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The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.
