Elizabeth Prentiss Quotes
Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him--this is all!
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What's true for churches is true for other institutions: the older and more organized they get, the less adaptable they become. That's why the most resilient things in our world - biological life, stock markets, the Internet - are loosely organized.
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I'm glad I went through all the normal teenage dramas that a lot of people go through. I can really relate to 'Secret Life' because I witnessed those similar struggles.
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From my very first movie, what was my concentration, my inspiration, was I didn't want to narrate something, I didn't want to tell a story. I wanted to show something, I wanted for them to make their own story from what they were seeing.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I do go into things thinking, 'Right. I'm going to enjoy this.'
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I have big hands. I can't do the touch-screen thing. I'm a button guy. I want to press buttons.
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When I'm reading material, if I'm a little bit afraid of a part and I'm willing to admit that to myself, then I'll do it, definitely. If I'm worried about being able to do it, to get it - I absolutely just love it.
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I love my sleep.
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I'll tell you what's helped me my entire life. I look at baseball as a game. It's something where people can go out, enjoy and have fun. Nothing more.
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I was inspired to spend an entire year - my 65th year - reading, researching, and meditating on Lao-tzu's messages, practicing them and ultimately writing down these insights as I felt Lao-tzu wanted us to know them.
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I definitely have family on the brain.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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If you look at total numbers in the working and middle class, men still on average make more than women.
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But if the technological Singularity can happen, it will.
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But the issue is not only life and death but our existence before God and our being judged by him. All of us were sinners before him and worthy of condemnation.
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You never know what events are going to transpire to get you home.
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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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In a film score, the last thing you want to do is take people out of the movie. The music is secondary. In opera, the music is the main event.
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I don't actually think I could be happy on one coast all year round. California is a sweeter lifestyle, but I need the energy of New York to keep me on my toes.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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I love the homely atmosphere of Indore and Bhopal. People here are very warm and affectionate.
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Wondrous as it is, how simple is this mystery! To love Christ and to know that I love Him--this is all!
