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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I grew up in a very religious household. My mom was a church organist. I was a religious kid.
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What is meditation?... It is fleeing from the self, it is a short escape of the agony of being a self, it is a short numbing of the senses against the pain and the pointlessness of life. The same escape, the same short numbing is what the driver of an ox-cart finds in the inn, drinking a few bowls of rice wine or fermented coconut-milk.
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People want to be with their own and want to be separated from others.
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I can loop my tongue into multiple rolls.
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I knew my life had been given back for a purpose.
