Elizabeth Cunningham Quotes
So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless.
Quotes to Explore
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I find myself so easily discouraged. It is pathetic how easily I can be discouraged - easily discouraged by resistance, easily discouraged by opposition, easily discouraged by hardness of heart, easily discouraged by blindness.
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Knowing trees, I understand the meaning of patience. Knowing grass, I can appreciate persistence.
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Men need to live and breathe women.
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What we should celebrate more than diversity is what we do with it. How do we bring everyone in the tent and create something together? In a twenty-first century way that activates our true potential, we all need to become sworn-again.
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Man (and woman) has an infinite capacity for self-development. Equally, he has an infinite capacity for self-destruction. A human being may be clinically alive and yet, despite all appearances, spiritually dead.
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The great enemy of the life of faith in God is not sin, but the good which is not good enough. The good is always the enemy of the best.
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The more we can put the camera in a better place, the more we can take the audience on a more extreme journey with that character.
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For years, I've had a hankering for the portrait of Benjamin Franklin by Joseph Duplessis. Franklin is credited with so many inventions: the postal system, lightning rods, the constitution. He was a rock star before there was such a thing.
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I happen temporarily to occupy this big White House. I am living witness that any one of your children may look to come here as my father's child has.
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No artist tolerates reality.
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The definition of morality: Morality is the idiosyncrasy of decadents having the hidden desire to revenge themselves upon life - and being successful.
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Burn down your cities and leave our farms, and your cities will spring up again as if by magic; but destroy our farms and the grass will grow in the streets of every city in the country.
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A difference which makes no difference is no difference at all.
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A good heavy book holds you down. It's an anchor that keeps you from getting up and having another gin and tonic.
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Cinema is mass media, it is both overtly gross and exciting. It is our great mirror of society.
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But for that Book, we could not know right from wrong.
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So I say, if you are burning, burn. If you can stand it, the shame will burn away and leave you shining, radiant, and righteously shameless.
