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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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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The whole meaning of prayer is that we may know God.
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I was not allowed to take spherical trigonometry because I'd sprained my ankle. Because I'd sprained my ankle, I had an incomplete in gym, phys ed. And the rule was that if you had an incomplete in anything, you were not allowed to take an overload.
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What fascinated me, it was not the glory, but the contact with the public.
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Knowledge is a rich storehouse for the glory of the Creator and the relief of man's estate.
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The softest things in the world overcome the hardest things in the world. Through this I know the advantage of taking no action.
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The man whose eye is single for the glory of Another can be trusted.
