Elisabeth Elliot Quotes
Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of Christ has shown through their lives.
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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As a reward of their clean living and good habits these great stars have been able to withstand the rigorous test of stamina and physical exertion and have thus successfully extended their most remarkable careers over a period of many strenuous years.
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Badly constructed houses do for the healthy what badly constructed hospitals do for the sick. Once insure that the air in a house is stagnant, and sickness is certain to follow.
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There is a very thin line between confidence and arrogance.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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The truth is, I don't have any problem with journalists - I count some of them as friends - also some of my heroes are journalists, I'm a big fan of Robert Fisk - great people or crazy people who are prepared to stand up for what's right.
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You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.
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Power should not be concentrated in the hands of so few, and powerlessness in the hands of so many.
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Yes, we need euthanasia, for certain cases where people are in comas or too immobile to even press a button.
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When studios start telling me why a particular film project won't work, I remember 'Rocky.' I remember that the biggest success Bob Chartoff and I have had was a film nobody wanted to make.
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Feeling like you're respected among the people who do the same thing you do is incredible and necessary.
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I saw the president make the tough calls in the Situation Room - and today, our troops in Iraq have finally come home so America can do some nation building here at home. That was the change that we believed in. That was the change we fought for. That was the change President Obama delivered.
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I thought Nixon was getting ganged up on, but when I heard the tapes, I was shocked and terribly saddened.
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We can choose a path that leads us into trouble. It all comes down to our decisions at the end of the day.
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I'm a bit hyperactive as an actor, I like to keep moving.
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It's really not a good idea to forecast or double guess the fates; you will always be fooled.
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Our people are going to war to perpetuate slavery, but the war will be its death knell.
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People associate me with a time when movies were pleasant, when women wore pretty dresses in films and you heard beautiful music. I always love it when people write me and say 'I was having a rotten time, and I walked into a cinema and saw one of your movies, and it made such a difference.'
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Well, when I came to Hollywood, there were three names really of Latin actors, three or four names, maybe five. There was Raul Julia, Edward James Olmos, Andy Garcia, Antonio Banderas, Jimmy Smits. Now there's a lot.
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If I do a play, it's my vision, and everybody else is working on the production to support that. If I do an opera, I feel like part of my job is to support that composer, to try and create something that allows the composer to do his or her best work. In movies, it's usually the director.
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We will never appear on stage again. There is simply no motivation to re-group. Money is not a factor and we would like people to remember us as we were. Young, exuburent, full of energy and ambition.
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Information flow is what the Internet is about. Information sharing is power. If you don't share your ideas, smart people can't do anything about them, and you'll remain anonymous and powerless.
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Even if you perform with a great choreography, or a part of a great group, I believe you can’t imitate people’s aura.
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Among the most joyful people I have known have been some who seem to have had no human reason for joy. The sweet fragrance of Christ has shown through their lives.
