Charles R. Swindoll Quotes
I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.
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In my district, the ports of Long Beach and Los Angeles handle approximately 44 percent of all of the goods delivered to American shores, yet they are in constant need of revenue for facilities, improvements and upgrades to roads and bridges and rails.
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I have to be on such a strict diet constantly.
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When you are tough on yourself, life is going to be infinitely easier on you.
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When you actually fall in love, no one sees that other person the way that you do.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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I don't want to get too philosophical, but in a sense, you're given this gift, this sort of creative force in you, and I think everyone has it, and it's completely unique to you. And you as a person have a little bit of a responsibility as its shepherd if you choose to incorporate that into your life.
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I actually started playing in little cafes around New York, and I have a lot of good friends of mine who are musicians who are struggling in New York.
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I remember growing up always loving the guitar. I used to love to watch the people play on the Country Western shows on TV. My folks told me that when I was just a toddler, I used to pretend I was playing a guitar on a toothpick.
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Skid Row would probably be my favorite Jersey band.
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He that strives to touch the starts, oft stumbles at a straw.
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I find television, and particularly live television, very romantic: the idea that there is this small group of people, way up high, in a skyscraper in the middle of Manhattan, beaming this signal out into the night.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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Our society finds truth too strong a medicine to digest undiluted. In its purest form, truth is not a polite tap on the shoulder. It is a howling reproach.
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We're a phenomenally snobby society, and it's such a rich seam. The middle class is so funny: it's the class I know best, and it's the class where you find the most pretension, so that's what makes the middle classes so funny.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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On the rare occasions I go to the gym, I prefer silence.
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My first major role was in a play called 'Through the Leaves.'
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I really think that you have to find a partner that compliments you and is somebody that pushes you and is better at some things than you are, so they can push you to improve yourself as a person.
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As I recall, my life as a child was so all-consuming that I barely had time to consider the future.
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Fortunately, though she was hungry, she didn't mind missing a meal. Life was full of meals. They took up an enormous proportion of one's time.
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The critical reaction to 'Bloom' has been similar to 'Brick.' There are people on board with it and people who are not.
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I let people see the cracks in my life. We can't be phony. We've got to keep it real.
