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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For our family, learning was everything. Homework came first; books, being sacred, were never to be left on the floor.
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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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Whenever you talk about Chinese dragons, emperors, palaces, concubines - they conjure up a whole colonial argle-bargle that has nothing to do with historical reality.
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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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Most agree, whatever their party political position, that the West can and should open its agricultural markets more fully to the products of the poorer countries of the globe. They are agricultural societies that need our markets more than our charity.
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Acting is not my favourite thing. I don't like wearing costumes and wigs.
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Joan of Arc was born 600 years ago. Six centuries is a long time to continue to mark the birth of a girl who, according to her family and friends, knew little more than spinning and watching over her father's flocks.
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Hollywood people are filled with guilt: white guilt, liberal guilt, money guilt. They feel bad that they're so rich, they feel they don't work that much for all that money - and they don't, for the amount of money they make.
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Truthfully, my life is always lunacy.
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Some of His children must go into the furnace to testify that the Son of God is there with them.
