Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I feel like I want to and have to do everything once.
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If you are lucky enough to find something that you love, and you have a shot at being good at it, don't stop, don't put it down.
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If you're in a dark place, you're there for a reason. And the only way to get through to those kids or to other people going through the same thing is really to meet them in that dark place and then slowly bring them to the light.
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The reason I did the book about holidays is that you're a different person on holiday. You're sleeping somewhere unfamiliar, knocking about with people you've never met and for 10 days you're someone else. You're out of your comfortable zone.
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I think that a lot of women that know they're going to be part of history somehow decide to have a character to be remembered by.
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There's no way I set out to be a certain kind of symbol - the way I dress is the way I am, the way I live my life.
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We need to bring sustainable energy to every corner of the globe with technologies like solar energy mini-grids, solar powered lights, and wind turbines.
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I kept trying to write these books that were sort of outside of my realm, and I kept failing.
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Language as a communication tool is the primary element from which literature is created. Even in pre-literate societies, it exists as songs, riddles, or epics that are chanted.
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There has to be so many other ways of approaching airline security than demeaning ourselves by giving up a lot of our dignities and our liberty to do this.
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At a time when 2500 American soldiers have given their lives for the cause of bringing democracy to Iraq, it is sad and frustrating to watch the Republican establishment disgrace the exercise of democracy in our own House of Representatives.
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I will not become a Napoleon nor an Alexander, and labour for my own ambition; but I will labour for freedom and for the moral well-being of man.
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There isn't quite a feeling you get from playing video games that you get when you're playing sports, which is like a sense of euphoria. You just get the satisfaction of doing something active and feeling good after.
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For me, it's hard to keep up with trends. I just go for the roles and movies that I feel I could add value to, or contribute to, that I feel I could portray.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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No person who examines and reflects, can avoid seeing that there is but one race of people on the earth, who differ from each other only according to the soil and the climate in which they live.
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Subtlety may deceive you; integrity never will.
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Hollywood is sexist and age-ist, and that covers all the bases, I guess.
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Design is important, it's an important dimension in the car. It's not the only one.
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Indeed you can usually tell when the concepts of democracy and citizenship are weakening. There is an increase in the role of charity and in the worship of volunteerism. These represent the élite citizen's imitation of noblesse oblige; that is, of pretending to be aristocrats or oligarchs, as opposed to being citizens.
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The most important lesson we can learn is how to pray. Prayers do not die, prayers live before God, and God's heart is set on them.
