Charles R. Swindoll Quotes
I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!
Quotes to Explore
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Be there for your kids. Later, when you need them, they'll be there for you.
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Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods.
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So, I'm on 'Sesame Street,' walking around with all these monsters, Elmo and his buddies, a whole bunch of chickens, a whole bunch of penguins and a number four dancing about. It was just pure joy, simple, ridiculous fun, stupid joy. There's no irony. 'Sesame Street' is just a crazy great place to be.
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I'm the tomboy so I got to be a little butch.
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I'm a big believer in the power of visualizations. And so are neuroscientists. Numerous studies have proven how merely imagining positive circumstances sends blood flowing from negative brain regions to positive ones.
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I'm a passionate person, to a fault at times.
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When I see the Ten Most Wanted Lists... I always have this thought: If we'd made them feel wanted earlier, they wouldn't be wanted now.
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I understand the common man because I understand me in that regard at least.
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I'm antisocial - there's no question about it.
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I believe as musicians and artists we have an obligation to our souls. What that is? Only each one of us knows. I can speak for myself and say my obligation is to be happy. When I'm happy, I make great music. When I'm unhappy and my heart is broken, I may make brokenhearted music, but it still sounds good.
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I call on the people of Tripoli to restrain themselves and not get drawn into conflict with anyone.
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Our thoughts and imagination are the only real limits to our possibilities.
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When I got out of high school, I was working in restaurants in New York City, when I heard Bill Anderson from The Neighborhood Playhouse was doing private lessons. I started taking classes, and it was a lot of improv and Meisner and repetition.
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I'm a big supporter of immigration.
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There has been a tendency through the years for reason and moderation to prevail as long as things are going tolerably well or as long as our problems seem clear and finite and manageable.
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For example, I noticed that every single kid in the high school in 'The Death-Ray' is based on somebody I went to high school with.
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It's easy to get four days a week of training in and I don't spend more than 55-60 minutes in the gym.
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Satellite images suggest North Korea is building a light-water reactor and working on uranium enrichment. This is troubling.
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Journalists know that often you don't grab stories, they grab you.
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The Greeks possessed a knowledge of human nature we seem hardly able to attain to without passing through the strengthening hibernation of a new barbarism.
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We need punk now; we need it more than ever. We need rebellion by youth.
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I think the American people are very smart in understanding our country is very trustworthy with nuclear weapons. We've had them from the beginning. But they have also been critical for keeping the world more at peace than it would have been if it hadn't been for the American nuclear umbrella.
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I was trying to be so perfect and so cookie-cutter because everyone's like, 'Aim for that Disney audience! Be perfect! Don't say anything wrong!' And it's just working out better for me just being me.
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I am a preacher. I'm involved in many other things, but, mainly, I preach. And I love it!
