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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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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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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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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I worked at this great Toronto bar, Indian Motorcycle. I started off as the grunt. I was the guy who cleaned up the puke and the ashtrays and the garbage. Worked in front from four in the afternoon until four in the morning.
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I can speak for most songwriters - those breakup love songs are so easy to write, as far as the inspiration and all that.
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The accusation that we've lost our soul resonates with a very modern concern about authenticity.
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I have never yet met a healthy person who worried very much about his health, or a really good person who worried much about his own soul.
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There is in souls a sympathy with sounds: And as the mind is pitch'd the ear is pleased With melting airs, or martial, brisk or grave; Some chord in unison with what we hear Is touch'd within us, and the heart replies.
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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.
