Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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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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Thumbs up to the buxom woman. Size zero is boring!
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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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'Grease' changed my life in the most amazing way, and I've had such an amazing life. When things go wrong, you've got to believe you will get through them and focus on the positive things in your life.
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I do not believe that a moral philosophy can ever be founded on a scientific basis. … The valuation of life and all its nobler expressions can only come out of the soul’s yearning toward its own destiny. Every attempt to reduce ethics to scientific formulas must fail. Of that I am perfectly convinced.
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You hope in this life that you grow and don't always repeat your mistakes.
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There's been roles that I have turned down. There's no rule book or handbook... It's just... whatever I'm comfortable with.
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Stripping away my ego and accepting my truth even if it's not who I want to see. Makes me want to be better when it's exposed. It's very vulnerable and exhilarating.
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I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.
