Gerrit W. Gong Quotes
In losing our worldly self through covenant belonging, we find and become our best eternal self—free, alive, real—and define our most important relationships.
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I influence people, hopefully on the positive side.
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I try not to eat too many raw vegetables. I only have one raw meal a day. At night I eat warm, cooked foods. I like to drink lots of tea, but no coffee. Not drinking coffee has changed my game for the better.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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Let's take care of the necessities first: give people jobs, and find a way to get us out of poverty.
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I think it is all about finding ways to challenge yourself.
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No one wants to drown. Drowning would be the worst. Cause everyone knows that feeling. That feeling, oh it's the worst... when you think you're drowning.
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I'm proud of my decade-long fight to have all ophthalmologists re-certify, regardless of age.
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The price of success is hard work, dedication to the job at hand, and the determination that whether we win or lose, we have applied the best of ourselves to the task at hand.
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Now I'm just known as McDreamy, I've lost all identity as Patrick Dempsey, I'm now McDreamy.
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Men have as exaggerated an idea of their rights as women have of their wrongs.
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Every girl should be married at least once in her life. It's a must. Because once you have been married, you are a Mrs., and even if the marriage doesn't work out, they can't take that away from you.
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Radicalization is very easy when you mock what people hold dear.
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It is guaranteed to put all teeth on edge, including George Washington's, wherever they might be.
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There is less in this than meets the eye.
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It takes a while for audiences on film to see you as something different if they've seen you for so long as a specific character. It's up to the actor to be like, 'Look man, let's try something else,' even if it's an ultra-low-budget independent. People who rep you will keep going with whatever they can send you on.
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After the turbulence of death, moral principles and even religious proofs are called into question.
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Marriages are under strain today in terms of economics. There are social cross-currents. We see failed marriages. But it is not under attack by our gay and lesbian citizens.
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I'm dreaming of a white Christmas,Just like the ones I used to know.
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I'm not a really good classical guitarist by any means, but what I learned from this is a way of working very slowly on solo pieces and I enjoyed working on these pieces of John's. They were not written for solo guitar but a lot of them were easy to adapt.
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His business is here, it is here that he is despised and vilified, it is here that he must carry out his undertaking.
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I wear frayed khaki pants.
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From the solemn gloom of the temple children run out to sit in the dust, God watches them play and forgets the priest.
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After that initial success, every chance we got we'd hire that remote recording truck and just record stuff at the Whisky because it was so inexpensive.
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In losing our worldly self through covenant belonging, we find and become our best eternal self—free, alive, real—and define our most important relationships.
