Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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The more I talk about things, the more I understand myself.
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It's a hard life... but if I could, I would do it all again.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The reason can only be this: heroic poetry depends on an heroic age, and an age is heroic because of what it is, not because of what it does.
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I'm the kind of person whose clothes are all hung up and color-coordinated, to the point where my whites don't touch my creams.
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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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If I can't get a mental image from the song, I won't sing it.
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You have to know you can first. How comes later.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Dressing for yourself and not a man is definitely something I advocate.
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Immortality. We all want to be remembered: We want to do things that will make people say, 'Isn't he wonderful?'
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Being a full human being is difficult, frightening, and problematical.
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What ObamaCare did was take some of the things we did for the poor and expanded the government to basically the whole marketplace.
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Without trust, you have nothing: trust is so important to me.
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There are different types of talents and intelligences, and traditional schools sometimes ignore the creative ones. It is important for us to give kids every platform for them to find what they are good at and what they love. The arts also provide a space for newfound creativity.
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In my opinion, Christian Dior was never, ever theatre.
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Working for the 'Miami Herald' in 1972, I covered street action for both the Republican and Democratic national conventions in Miami and saw probably the most violent conventions ever - more violent than even 1968 in Chicago.
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Common men talk bagfuls of religion but do not practise even a grain of it. The wise man speaks little, even though his whole life is religion expressed in action.
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Children sweeten labours. But they make misfortune more bitter. They increase the care of life. But they mitigate the remembrance of death. The perpetuity of generation is common to beasts. But memory, merit and noble works are proper to men. And surely a man shall see the noblest works and foundations have proceeded from childless men which have sought to express the images of their minds where those of their bodies have failed.
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Writers of literature make very little money.
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I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.
