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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You always have to know when to bow out. You bow out while you are on top.
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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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My advice to new artists is to embrace a broader concept of timelessness than vintage or retro.
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A masculine education cannot spare from professional study and the necessary acquisition of languages, the time and attention which I have bestowed on the compositions of my countrymen.
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'The purpose of a storyteller is not to tell you how to think, but to give you questions to think upon.'
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I play out negative fantasies for people. I'm the guy people love to hate. And they always remember the bad guy.
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Professionally, I was at Bristol Old Vic Theatre School and did lots of things there, and then I won the BBC Carlton Hobbs Award, so I did some BBC Radio drama work, which is a lovely way to start out because you work with lots of great people, and you're working all the time, so you're learning rather than sitting around and waitressing.
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The first years of man must make provision for the last.
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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.
