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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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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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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Ingratitude is the essence of vileness.
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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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To be able to be caught up into the world of thought - that is being educated.
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We need to save the education system. We need to remove education from the framework of the political parties that rule in the State of Israel. We need to increase the allocation of long-term national resources to education and never touch them - no matter what.
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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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I have had to do most of my choreography. I would say most of it, with help from various choreographers I have worked with.
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Being born in a duck yard does not matter, if only you are hatched from a swan's egg.
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In many ways, anti-anti-Trumpism mirrors Donald Trump himself because, at its core there are no fixed values, no respect for constitutional government or ideas of personal character - only a free-floating nihilism cloaked in insult, mockery, and bombast.
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As long as I'm blessed and/or cursed to be alive, it's hard to see a time when I won't be making music.
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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.
