Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes
Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.
Quotes to Explore
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I always played to win.
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My parents were the good parents that said, 'You should try and get a good job and go to college and get an education.'
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I don't have any message in the music. Music will be fine as long as you take care of yourself.
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I have a Stella McCartney Adidas sports bra. I feel like I'm totally comfortable running. No problem. I have support where I need it.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure. Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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I'm a black man in the United States of America, so I always feel like there's a target on me.
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Our evolution could have gone in different directions a lot of times. We could have gone extinct at some points. We might not have gotten our big brains, or Neanderthals might have made it while we did not.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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I consider myself more a European director who is from Iceland than an Icelandic director.
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An American, a Negro... two souls, two thoughts, two unreconciled strivings; two warring ideals in one dark body, whose dogged strength alone keeps it from being torn asunder.
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What most men call their conscience is imaginary virtue switching left or right according to self-interest.
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Little deeds are like little seeds, they grow to flowers or to weeds.
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Life is not a thing of knowing only - nay, mere knowledge has properly no place at all save as it becomes the handmaiden of feeling and emotion.
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I'm always swimming forward like a shark. You just keep going and you don't rest. I love waking up knowing that I have a problem to solve.
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I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.
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Race horses are like golfers, you're never sure how they're going to come out of the stalls. It's just - hopefully the horses come out of the race all right, just fit and ready to go again in the near future, but 3rd was good. It's paid for its hay.
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It's always beautiful to sing with other great voices. I like voices in general. It's a big privilege to have great singers next to me.
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My family - my husband, my daughters, my grandchildren, my great-grandchildren, all of them - are the most important thing in the world to me.
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In the late '70s, I had a band - the David Johansen band, for lack of a better name - and I started collecting, not records, but tapes from people I knew who had jump-blues records.
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We're very positive. The company has made good inroads into the networking industry.
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I'm just very thankful. And I say that a lot because that's the most important message.
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A lot of people understand what not saying anything means, so, in effect, not saying anything is really saying a lot.
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Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.
