Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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I don't think people are ever going to a place where they're like, 'I'm over stories about character and love.'
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I've always been attracted to women who are assertive and have confidence - qualities older women possess. They've been on the Earth a little longer. They're more seasoned. They don't play games. They know what they want, and they're not afraid to tell you.
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You know Hollywood is a weird and wonderful place, I didn't know I Dream of Jeanie had been cancelled after 5 years until I went back to go on the lot to pick up some clothes and things I had in my dressing room.
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We are shallow because we are 'mayabang,' ego driven, and do not have the humility to understand that we are only human, much too human to mistake knowledge for wisdom.
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There is no diplomacy like candor.
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If you're asking me where my heart and where I'm happy is, I love playing with Tom Brady. I love being coached by Bill Belichick.
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There is something in humility which strangely exalts the heart.
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Most people read poetry listening for echoes because the echoes are familiar to them. They wade through it the way a boy wades through water, feeling with his toes for the bottom: The echoes are the bottom.
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Few can contemplate without a sense of exhilaration the splendid achievements of practical energy and technical skill, which, from the latter part of the seventeenth century, were transforming the face of material civilization, and of which England was the daring, if not too scrupulous, pioneer.
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All the skills of housewifery are the ones I'm using as a producer.
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I've not sat with my agent going: 'Where is the next hopeless girl I can play?' They just come along.
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By plucking her petals, you do not gather the beauty of the flower.
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In my world view, clearly the Internet is a huge force multiplier for Indian media because it has not crept up on us like something invisible; we've seen it all play out in the West.
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Within all of us is a divine capacity to manifest and attract all that we need and desire.
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Absence of evidence is not evidence of absence.
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Panic is a horrible thing.
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I took a bit of a back seat, I had kids and I wanted to focus on them. There's that period in the late '90s, the early 2000s, where I didn't do a great deal.
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You're an enormous sponge and everything goes in there and you squeeze it out in songs, I guess. And if you're a painter, you squeeze them out on to a canvas.
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I absolutely hate clothes shopping, though I love clothes. It's my idea of heaven to be handed things to wear.
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We live a happy life, and we don't take anything too seriously.
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I have always thought of myself as an inventor first and foremost. An engineer. An entrepreneur. In that order. I never thought of myself as an employee. But my first jobs as an adult were as an employee: at IBM, and then at my first start-up.
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I find being funny very hard work. I am always asked about it, and I feel guilty saying that, but it's the truth. I love my work, but it ain't easy.
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All that I did not like in people, I tried to find in myself and get rid of it. Everything I liked, I tried to obtain.
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By trying to grab fulfillment everywhere, we find it nowhere.
