Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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Gandhi's ideas were rooted in a wide experience of a freshly globalized world.
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We have this idea that extroverts are better salespeople. As a result, extroverts are more likely to enter sales; extroverts are more likely to get promoted in sales jobs. But if you look at the correlation between extroversion and actual sales performance - that is, how many times the cash register actually rings - the correlation's almost zero.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I married him because he told me it was the only way he could protect me. If we were just manager and client, my family could do whatever they wanted to get me back, but if I was his wife, they couldn't.
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Futurists wanted to suggest movement by means of a dynamic painting; Duchamp applies the notion of delay - or, rather, or analysis - to movement.
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Going to parties usually makes me feel depressed, just because I have such social fear after meeting people.
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I can't exactly say why there's not much protest music to speak off. And I know there are acts out there still putting a message in their music.
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Being away from home for six months of the year and seeing your kids grow up on Skype all that time - I think I saw Molly walk for the first time on Skype. That's not good.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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It's my dream, my goal to be good at Olympics, anywhere they are in the world.
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There is so much to be gained from investing more time in what we eat. Buying fresh ingredients means knowing where your food comes from and what's in it.
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A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.
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If all the ways I have been along were marked on a map and joined up with a line, it might represent a minotaur.
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Los Angeles is the only place that I can honestly say I have ever called home.
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I figure no matter how old you are, it's always going to be your first marriage and no life experience is going to make you a better judge of who you should marry.
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As you become more clear about who you really are, you'll be better able to decide what is best for you - the first time around.
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The fear of hell, or aiming to be blest, savors too much of private interest.
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Growth as a goal, to repeat, is delusion. William James, the American philosopher, talked of the 'bitch goddess success.' A philosopher of business today might well talk of the 'bitch goddess growth.'
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What I believe will make my acting career successful going forward is hard work. I like to challenge myself. Then it's the people I meet and choosing the projects I want to work on correctly. There's a lot of characters I can play.
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…vices are sometimes only virtues carried to excess!
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The greats are 'The Shining', 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Don't Look Now', 'The Exorcist' - those movies were not really slashers: they were about psychological terror and had very deep emotional backdrops. If we do our best, '6 Miranda Drive' can be that kind of a movie.
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Worry does not empty tomorrow of its sorrow, it empties today of its strength. it does not enable us to escape evil. It makes us unfit to face evil when it comes. it is the interest you pay on trouble before it comes.
