Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
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Rey is so strong. She's cool and smart and she can look after herself. Young girls can look at her and know that they can wear trousers if they want to. That they don't have to show off their bodies.
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We are a nation in which freedom is alive in the squares and streets, in the daily work of the communications media, in the open relationship between the governing and the governed.
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Lifespan extension has never really been a goal of aging science, nor should it.
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I want to be strong. I want to be able to hit people. I want people to be able to bounce off me. When I go out there and play, I play to intimidate people. If someone gets hit down by me, they're going to think twice about coming near me again.
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Chi non esce dal suo paese, vive pieno di pregiudizi.
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When I started playing music, it was all face-to-face.
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I didn’t know that painters and writers retired. They’re like soldiers – they just fade away.
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I was once naïve enough to ask the late Duke of Devonshire why he liked the town of Eastbourne. He replied with a self-deprecating shrug that one of the things he liked was that he owned it.
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I'm not somebody that thinks about destiny and fate, but I don't walk away from it when something unfolds.
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What shall I say? I must tread a fine line between glaciosity and friendlinosity. With just a hint of 'you don't know what you are missing, my fine-feathered friend.
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Become the change you want to see - those are words I live by.
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Everything is so alive, that I can be alive. Without moving I can see it all. In your life I see everything that lives.
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We also have a lot of the same influences - we both read a lot of the beatniks. And yet what we actually do is almost exactly the opposite. His [ Hunter S. Thompson] political stuff is just wonderful, but basically nothing happens.
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There was a brief silence in which the distant echo of Hagrid smashing down a wooden front door seemed to reverberate through the intervening years.
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On the other side of the trade deficit, of course, is the capital surplus. We are buying more goods than we are selling, but, on the other hand, the capital account surplus means that the United States is such an attractive market...that individuals from abroad are investing in the United States...at a record rate.
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Always be a little unexpected.
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Love is who we are, and when we deviate from that love we're deviating from our ultimate, essential, eternal reality.
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Music seems hard-wired into our very being. It moves us, stirs us to action, sets us in motion, sticks in our memories and minds.
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I've been lucky with the circle of people I'm playing with. We've played enough that there's a language we talk with each other when we play.
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You get more negative reactions than positive reactions as you go through life, and the big lesson is nobody counts you out but yourself...I never have; I never will.
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Republicans won big, running as Republicans, in 2004. But once they took control of Congress, they started acting like Democrats and lost big. There is a lesson in that somewhere but whether Republicans will learn it is another story entirely.
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The deepest lessons come out of the deepest waters and the hottest fires.
