Elton Welsby (Roger Elton Welsby) Quotes
I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though deriving this benefit: I was able to refute them for myself and loathe them even more.
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When I look at the world I'm pessimistic, but when I look at people I am optimistic.
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I made sacrifices willingly; it was what I did best.
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When we assess the impact of technological changes, we tend to downplay things that happened a while ago.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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My schedule is so crazy.
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I have to accept the fact that, no matter what I do, it's going to annoy someone.
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Among those people lucky enough, if you will, to have actually been brought to trial as a political prisoner, several historians have said there has not been one acquittal since the Bolshevik Revolution.
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America is huge.
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Curiosity is lying in wait for every secret.
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Private education can give you confidence, which is marvellous; a sense of entitlement isn't.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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Maybe if I could ever be a successful comedian then I could be an example that Christians can also have fun.
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It's about stories. If I can tell the story to America, whether it's Riesling or a boxer from Harlem, it will sell. I know on my gravestone it's going to be, 'Storyteller.'
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When the fearsome foursome of rock music, Chuck Berry, Bo Diddley, Little Richard, and Jerry Lee Lewis, decided to show up in Toronto for a rock and roll festival, I knew we had to go there to try to get them all on film.
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Now, you tell me, if I have a day off during the baseball season, where do you think I'll spend it? The ballpark. I still love it. Always have, always will.
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I actually think I'm more of a turtle than Verne is. Where Verne is up on two legs and moving at full speed and doesn't pull his head into the shell very often, I in reality was five or ten minutes later to every recording session.
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When you try to unravel something you've written, you belittle it in a way. It was created as a mystery.
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If we don't change, we don't grow. If we don't grow, we aren't really living.
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Many people effectively stop carrying out what it's called 'life's a movie.' The majority of people want to be like others, and this drives them to a death in life. It is necessary to find what distinguishes us from others in order to be something. To the extent that we try to be like others, we convert ourselves into zombies.
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We are all very imperfect and weak things, and if we are to destroy all whose ways we do not like, there will be not a man left alive.
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All writers write about the past, and I try to make it come alive so you can see what happened.
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I myself have read the writings and teachings of the heretics, polluting my soul for a while with their abominable notions, though deriving this benefit: I was able to refute them for myself and loathe them even more.
