Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
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Containment, as everyone will recall, was a rough plan for stopping the Communists any time they crossed a certain line dividing our half of the world from theirs.
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If you're a writer, write. You just keep writing. And if you're a filmmaker, you keep doing what you can to keep telling your stories; you don't stay on the one. Keep moving forward and doing what you can to tell whatever story you can tell, be it via writing, be it via filming it.
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The biggest public mistake I ever made was that I chose to do 'Criminal Minds' in the first place.
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I'm from Houston. I think I was thirty-seven before I ever set foot in Dallas, and that was just in the airport. So I've never really been there. Dad grew up in Port Arthur, Texas and all I can ever get out of him is, 'I wanted my first son to be named Dallas.'
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In Iran, fundamentalism was fuelled to an extent by the regime of the Shah being supported by the West.
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I'm very intolerant and I get fed up with people easily.
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I treat the camera like a person - I gaze into it. Photos are a flat thing, and you need to put life into them.
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I love mixing with comedians when I'm working with them, but when I'm not I don't feel the need to hang around with them.
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Nothing is inevitable until it happens.
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There is no arguing with the pretenders to a divine knowledge and to a divine mission. They are possessed with the sin of pride, they have yielded to the perennial temptation.
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Perhaps there is no greater issue facing contemporary women than the choices they must make about balancing home and work.
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If you can accept losing, you can't win.
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I would like to run for the mayor of the city of Chicago. That has always been an aspiration of mine even when I was in the House of Representatives.
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That's my mentality. Just because somebody has fouled me, there is no reason for me to be nasty to him. I try to respect football as much as possible, and when someone is injured, you put the ball out.
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I'm still a small shrimp, not a dragon.
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In all of us, there is a struggle between the good and the bad. It makes it more palpable and real to play such people as an actor.
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I really loved the 'Sopranos' but didn't have HBO. So someone would send me tapes of the show with three or four episodes. I would watch one episode and go: 'Oh my God, I've got to watch one more.' I'd watch the whole tape and champ at the bit for the next one.
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I'm old-school English, so I suppose I'm quite protective - especially of time. Now that I'm a father, every moment is precious.
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It seems so long ago that I played the part of the Doctor.
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If I could choose something besides fashion, I would love to be a ballerina.
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If partnering with Facebook meant that we had to change our values, we wouldn't have done it.
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You could have a hit in California that no one had heard of in Oklahoma.
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People often believe that character causes action, but when it comes to producing moral children, we need to remember that action also shapes character.
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No marriage can survive without forgiveness. Marriage is a long term commitment between two sinners.
