Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
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The difference between Amazon and us is Amazon is more like an empire - everything they control themselves, buy and sell.
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You're human; you make mistakes. You have to put all the things in the past.
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We didn't want our kids raised in a place plagued by smog and plastic surgery.
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Bono told me how to dance in high heels and he also told me about U2's Glastonbury performance and how everything that could have possibly gone wrong went wrong, including him ripping his trousers on stage. I think he was lunging and his trousers ripped! He was telling me how he had to find a new way of performing that didn't involve moving.
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I think we all carry the seeds of our own destruction. You really have to be aware that just because something is good, it doesn't mean it's not going to trigger a self-destructive impulse.
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Grandfather was an old-fashioned pharmacist who never ceased venting his resentment at the growing number of retail items the drugstore had to carry, and he would go into periods of fearful rage when the subject of chain stores was raised.
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Memory... is the diary that we all carry about with us.
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The entire intelligence community is so bloated and so reliant on contractors. There's no question there's many tasks that make sense to outsource, and yet, we have followed blindly this dogma that if it's private contracting, it must be better.
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All that political stuff Delano was doing. Me, I've gone off the top, into total fantasy.
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It's always a Catch-22 situation. They hate you if you're the same, and they hate you if you're different.
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Performing live on stage is such a community, whether it's my musicians or a cast of a show that I'm in. And then when you're in the studio or on set, it's a much more solitary experience. Both can serve me at different times in my life. And when I go back and forth from one to the other, it helps me appreciate all of them much better.
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Even the largest avalanche is triggered by small things.
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I had cooked a lot in restaurants, in Rocky Point and on golf courses on Long Island, and my mother said, 'Be a chef,' and my dad said, 'Be a lawyer.' But instead, I auditioned for N.Y.U.'s Tisch School of the Arts.
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The mystic purchases a moment of exhilaration with a lifetime of confusion; and the confusion is infectious and destructive. It is confusing and destructive to try and explain anything in terms of anything else, poetry in terms of psychology.
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I've gone to school for business, for design, for architecture.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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I live to eat – when someone else cooks for me.
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My big influences are Joni Mitchell, and a lot of classical and Indian music, as well as Nina Simone and the personal blues and jazz of Billie Holiday. Other influences for me include Bjork, Nick Drake, and Sufjan Stevens.
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Personal style is not something that is just in the air. It is something you have and that you apply to yourself.
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But on the other hand I believe I'm a private person too, and I enjoy that aspect of my life as well.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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What God gives in answer to our prayers will always be the thing we most urgently need, and it will always be sufficient.
