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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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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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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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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Things are going to get better. Be optimistic.
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I think if you watch most of my films with the sound off, you could still tell what's going on.
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To cure the violence, we must identify and heal the causes of hatred and violence. If we don't deal with the causes we will never be safe.
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The whole theory of modern education is radically unsound. Fortunately in England, at any rate, education produces no effect whatsoever. If it did, it would prove a serious danger to the upper classes, and probably lead to acts of violence.
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I like his game; I really do. He's going to be good for the tour.
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To be old can be glorious if one has not unlearned how to begin.
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I am profoundly grateful that all of my life I have had a simple faith that Jesus is the Christ. That witness has been confirmed to me hundreds of times. It is the crowning knowledge of my soul. It is the spiritual light of my being. It is the cornerstone of my life.
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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.
