Charles R. Swindoll Quotes
We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
Quotes to Explore
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Coaching is the great passion of my life, and the job to me has always been an opportunity to work with our student athletes and help them discover what they want.
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I have always been driven; I've always wanted to be published, and I wanted to make that happen, so I worked very hard. 'Perfectionist' would be a word to describe me.
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I was being groomed to be a tennis player for sure. My grandparents and parents realised I had a natural athletic ability and if I was forced to do it, I could probably do well. But all I wanted was to play pretend.
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The idea of revenge coming from a 14-year-old girl isn't, you know, exactly right.
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Some of the furor that surrounded a Harry Potter publication was fun.
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I do want to lose weight for my children. I don't want them to think being fat is okay.
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I think it just came to a point where I made a decision to do better with my life and health. And that is only by God's grace because there are no guarantees.
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I fell in love with New York at some indeterminate point in my early years.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I was bulimic and anorexic for a while, just hating my body. As an actress, I was never thin enough, never pretty enough. My boobs weren't big enough.
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In argument, truth always prevails finally; in politics, falsehood always.
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Bill Clinton left office with a more than 60% approval rating.
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I think what you wear really does need to reflect what your own personal style is.
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Our career had a sort of funny shape.
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I could imagine actually being a scientist or a detective, but not a detective who puts his hands into gory, bloody things. But more like someone who figures things out. I like to figure things out.
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The world is indeed a mixture of truth and make-believe. Discard the make-believe and take the truth.
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My mother took great relish in introducing me as 'This is my son - he's a doctor but not the kind that helps people.'
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I think that that's so true for a lot of first responder families and military families. If you ask them, 'Is there anything I can do for you?', they almost always will not ask for that help.
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I try to take B genre movies and treat them as if they're A dramas. Get the cinematographers, get the actors to do an A drama, but it just happens to be about aliens or ghosts or crazy people, or killers, or whatever it is.
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I wrote my children's book because I believe there are children that are hurting and may need to know that there is love out there for them- God's love.
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Foreign audiences are used to seeing Mexico in other sorts of movies. 'Casi divas' is a step toward a more commercially successful cinema, without the violence, blood and exaggerations. The movie reflects a more human Mexico, while remaining a chick flick, although it is not a romantic comedy.
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The minimum wage should be a living wage.
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Poets, in their way, are practical men; they are interested in results.
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We cannot change our past. We can not change the fact that people act in a certain way. We can not change the inevitable. The only thing we can do is play on the one string we have, and that is our attitude.
