Jim Croce Quotes
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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We find ourselves under the government of a system of political institutions, conducing more essentially to the ends of civil and religious liberty, than any of which the history of former times tells us.
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The isolation of every human soul and the necessity of self-dependence must give each individual the right, to choose his own surroundings.
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That's one thing you Americans take for granted, you know? That you can grow up, you know, not so good circumstances, and you can move. Just because you are born in rural Arkansas, whatever, that doesn't define who you are.
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I'm definitely a lot more comfortable now in my 40s than in my 30s - that's for sure.
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Concealed handgun licenses contain all of the identifying information required by the TSA. It is time they recognize these licenses as acceptable forms of identification.
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I seem to have been able to make a career out of doing what I feel like doing, so why not keep doing it? What's corrupting is wanting to be more important. You want to be more arty - you get your identity from that. Or you get your identity out of making more money.
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There is something decidedly faux about the camaraderie of Facebook, something illusory about the connectedness of Twitter.
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With the BBC Sound list, it's just humbling even being put aside those other musicians - people like Alicia Kava, who I am a huge fan of.
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I think one wants lots of different lives.
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'Game Of Thrones' was too big a canvas for a movie, but 'Dirty White Boys' is like a great old Western: there's so much compression, and it's so pressurized, it demands to be told in one sitting.
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'Downton' took a long time to catch fire in America, but we have been getting good reviews for 'Tango.'
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I love the German and the Swiss people for their many fine traits of character. I love their language that is so exacting and yet so expressive.
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We have to take the first step as though there were no God. It is no use to wait for God to help us, He will not: but immediately we arise we find He is there.
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The real work is in the Heart:
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To make filmmaking interesting to me, I want to keep learning things.
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Room to swing a cat, it seemed was absolutely essential. It was an infrequent but indispensable operation.
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There has been little, if any, doubt that nothing short of a massive regime collapse, or (even more violent and bloody) full-scale war, will ever produce a non-nuclear North Korea. The regime is run by cold-minded and rational people who cannot afford to be emotional...
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Religion was quite a thing in our house - we were Baptists. Some Sundays I went to church three times. If there was a talk on missionary work in the afternoon, I could be there all bloody day. But religion took its first big knock after Dad died.
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The Lord has done what I wanted Him to do this week. I wanted, primarily, peace about going into pioneer Indian work. And as I analyze my feelings now, I feel quite at ease about saying that tribal work in South American jungles is the general direction of my missionary purpose.
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An alleged scientific discovery has no merit unless it can be explained to a barmaid.
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I'm no missionary, and I can't wear any armor, either. I just gotta be the way I am.
