Ephrem the Syrian Quotes
Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.

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Women tell me they are different since 21 May - the day I was arrested - it's a positive change, they believe now.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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Not even analysis, by itself, can transform you. You must still do the changing yourself.
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Apparently nobody really read it, it was a cheap movie, it fit their schedule in terms of things so fine, let the guy make that high school comedy. I used to work with Mel Brooks so they figured oh it's going to be one of those really silly movies and that's how it got made.
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Christianity has stayed stable, as it must do. The doctrines don't change. The understanding of what it means to walk with God doesn't change. The reality of worship doesn't change, not at heart, anyway. So Christianity appears to be stuck.
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I don't think I have a black-hat image.
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Thousands of years ago, civilizations flourished in Africa which suffer not at all by comparison with those of other continents. In those centuries, Africans were politically free and economically independent. Their social patterns were their own and their cultures truly indigenous.
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I always say you've only got one life to live, and you're not promised a tomorrow. So, you might as well just have a good time with it.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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In basic research, intellectual rigor and sentimental freedom necessarily alternate.
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'Vogue' is a very specific world. You are 'Vogue,' or not 'Vogue.'
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I don't think you can ease yourself into theater. I just thrust myself into it.
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And both were young, and one was beautiful.
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Get up, stand up: stand up for your rights! Get up, stand up: don't give up the fight!
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Part of being a winner is knowing when enough is enough. Sometimes you have to give up the fight and walk away, and move on to something that's more productive.
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When I was eight or nine, I wrote a new version of 'Peter Pan' for the school play. They didn't use it - I imagine it was unperformable - but as recompense for not doing my script, I was offered any role, and instinctively went for Captain Hook. I came on trying to be terrifying, but everyone laughed at me.
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We got to protect Medicaid.
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My pictures are my eyes. I photograph what I see - and what I want to see.
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When you were young, and your heart, was an open book. You used to say, live and let live.
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Comedy comes easily to me, and so for me, comedy is suspect.
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Hula is the language of the heart, therefore, the heartbeat of the Hawai'ian people.
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There are things that directors know about me that people shouldn't know.
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Blessed the one who meditates on death each day and destroys the base passions lurking in the vines of the heart, for he will be consoled in the moment of separation.