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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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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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 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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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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If you can turn your wants into your needs, you can do anything.
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As your career grows, the list of things that makes you happy should not become smaller, it should become bigger.
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If the FBI gets the 'back doors' it wants, Internet services would be required to create a massive online infrastructure for law enforcement to spy on members of the public.
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In current times, our moral uproar is best reserved for those who aspire to stone men or women to death, not those who consensually watch women - or men, for that matter - dance.
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I felt the pressure of imagination against the doors of my mind was so great that they were going to burst.
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The women themselves say they're far more likely to care about flexibility. The men say, 'I'm far more likely to care about money.'
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I think soul is soul. I don't see new soul as any different to old soul.
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I'm very attracted to exile literature - particularly Nabokov - exactly because the idea of being away from home for any serious length of time is so inconceivable to me.
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People's behaviour towards you changes when your films don't work. It's a painful period.
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The national unity government will need to implement a program that brings all Iraqis together, builds a happy future for the people of Iraq, and gets Iraq to stand on its own feet.
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And what if we’d been utterly open? Made jokes about the first wife? What if we’d been that kind of family? Well, I would have been different, surely. But not because I knew the secret. For it wasn’t the secret—the secret that wasn’t a secret anyway—that led to the austerity in our lives. It was the austerity that led to the secret. And what I had been marked by, probably most of all, was the austerity. It had made secrets in my life too. Or silences, anyway, that became secrets. That became lies.
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People who lean on logic and philosophy and rational exposition end by starving the best part of the mind.
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If you want to get lost in the jungle rhythm, get down on the ground and pretend you're swimming.
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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!
