Jo Dee Messina Quotes
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It is my own firm belief that the strength of the soul grows in proportion as you subdue the flesh.
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Clothes are such a strong part of who a human being is.
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I had these experiences as a kid; I remember certain things happening in school that were horrifying that I would see, certain things of violence or certain things of cruelty, but around that, something might happen afterwards to cause everyone to laugh, and that always blew me away.
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Our current identification system is so disjointed that the World Trade Center terrorists had a total of 63 valid driver's licenses between them.
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Of course, a movie is in constant flux.
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Smallpox, which spreads by respiration and kills roughly one in three of those infected, took hundreds of millions of lives during a recorded history dating to Pharaonic Egypt. The last case was in 1978, and the disease was declared eradicated on May 8, 1980.
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In order to become prosperous, a person must initially work very hard, so he or she has to sacrifice a lot of leisure time.
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Immigrant children are highly vulnerable. Their level of disadvantage and fragility has consistently grown due to factors outside their control.
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I don't write songs about a specific, elusive thing. I write about love, and everyone knows what it is like to have your heart broken.
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He is intangible and invisible. But His work is more powerful than the most ferocious wind. The Spirit brings order out of chaos and beauty out of ugliness. He can transform a sin-blistered man into a paragon of virtue. The Spirit changes people. The Author of life is also the Transformer of life.
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If grace is obligated it is no longer grace. The very essence of grace is that it is undeserved.
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Sit with those who constantly repent, for they have the softest hearts.
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It's not just what you say that stirs people. It's the way that you say it.
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For me, as a music fan, visuals kind of steal away the purity of the song. My instinct is not to provide a visual to go with a piece of music. But here's MTV. It's really powerful.
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Also something that you don't have to listen to from beginning to end - you can enter at any point and leave at any point.
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Would you know my name If I saw you in heaven Will it be the same If I saw you in heaven I must be strong, and carry on Cause I know I don't belong Here in heaven Would you hold my hand If I saw you in heaven Would you help me stand If I saw you in heaven I'll find my way, through night and day Cause I know I just can't stay Here in heaven
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Everything around you, especially your home environment, mirrors your inner self. So by changing your home, you also change the possibilities in your own life. Removing the obstacles to the harmonious flow of energy in your living environment creates more harmony in your life and the space for wonderful new opportunities to come to you.
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All that remains is regret for what might have been. It is like standing in the ashes of a fire you once approached to warm your body a little, but which burned you to the bone instead. Now the ashes are cold, and sometimes you remember that even when your hand was in the flames, you still had a terrible need to thrust it deeper.
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Carbon in your body - that's good thing. In a tree, it's good. In the atmosphere, it's a bad. Nature wants to sequester carbon in biota. And when we burn it, we release it. It's the wrong system.
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I do not have any formal education. What use is education when we do not become human beings? My school is the welfare of humanity.
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Songwriting is a great release. It helps me work through things.
