Gemma Galgani Quotes
If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love.
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I think most people that are looked upon as doing something daring don't necessarily think of it that way-they do what they have to do.
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People look at me as sort of a diplomat for Turkey, which by nature, I'm not; I don't want to be. It's again about that playfulness. Being Turkey's voice or representative is not playful, it's not childlike; it makes me self-conscious, kills the child in me.
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Being Somali, being Muslim, it's always something I've been very proud of.
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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
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When someone who loves and cares about me compliments me, I feel more glamorous than when the flashbulbs are going off on the red carpet.
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I think I was the only kid on the block who knew about furniture scale by the time I was 8.
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I got all my politics and culture and my sense of the great wide world of adults from 'Mad Magazine.' But all other comic books literally gave me a headache.
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The summer before I started college, my parents walked everywhere instead of taking the bus. Once a week, they would hand over $10 to the university housing office, a deposit so I could move into the dorms in the fall.
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North Korea is the errant teenage child, aren't they? Or toddler - they're holding their breath until they get their way.
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Nicki Minaj, I'm at MTV. I'm going to be honest with you: I love you. I like you. I want you; I want you to be mine. Only reason I'm not telling you this face to face is because I understand that you're busy.
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My friends always joke that I run on batteries.
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I hope that the message I conveyed in 'Julie of the Wolves' is to tell young people to think things out. Think independently.
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We like the size of the company today given the environment and have no plans to split it up and make it smaller.
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I'm fascinated by furniture design and interiors, and I want to try designing all that stuff.
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I have traveled a lot in the world, and wherever Islam is in charge, it's just terrible.
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It is a sexy country. We are very free with our bodies.
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My mother, at least twice, cancelled our family's subscription to the newspaper I was working on, because she was so mad about its treatment of my father.
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It's the same as any role and I find that you can't lump characters together; because they all have different life experiences, different reasons for being the way they are.
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I do a lot of writing on planes, actually. It's my time that I can just relax and have absolutely no distractions.
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At the moment of death we will not be judged according to the number of good deeds we have done or by the diplomas we have received in our lifetime. We will be judged according to the love we have put into our work.
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The usefulness of religion - the fact that it gives life meaning, that it makes people feel good - is not an argument for the truth of any religious doctrine. It's not an argument that it's reasonable to believe that Jesus really was born of a virgin or that the Bible is the perfect word of the creator of the universe.
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No one leads people to Jesus; He leads people to Himself. All the pressure's off; just go love everybody without agenda.
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People think that child-support enforcement benefits children, but it doesn't.
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If you really want to love Jesus, first learn to suffer, because suffering teaches you to love.
