Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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In 2005, I had one more year of college left, and I was taking a summer class in Barbados. I got discovered in the airport on my way back and started modeling at the beginning of my senior year at Bucknell.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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There's a lot more to me than just power.
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I think I've always been somebody to break rules.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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It was really impossible to break through in Russia. We couldn't buy any balls. We really didn't have any courts, no rackets, nothing. And no people to practice with.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I'm really anti-option, so computers have been my nightmare with recording. I don't want endless tracks; I want less tracks. I want decisions to be made.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I'd like to sell out worldwide stadium tours. That'd be something. Or to have sixty number ones on Billboard.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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When I did '1,2,3,4' on 'Sesame Street' they'd rewritten the song and made it about counting. At first, I balked. I was like, 'Counting to four? That's where we're going with this?' Then they sent me appearances by other people like James Blunt doing 'You're Beautiful' as 'My Triangle.'
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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I was definitely nervous for the combine. You train for three months to go out there and perform for three days.
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I've always felt a little misrepresented in the world.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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Ultimately, taste is so niche and so personal.
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What is the natural reaction when told you have a hopeless mental illness? That diagnosis does you in; that, and the humiliation of being there. I mean, the indignity you're subjected to. My God.
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I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.
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There was a time, two or three centuries ago, when it looked as if the intellect might win over the body, and our species become something worthwhile. But too much procreation killed that illusion.
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It may be that them whose pleasure brings you into this world owes you a living, but it don't mean the world is responsible.
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I know the world is filled with troubles and many injustices. But reality is as beautiful as it is ugly. I think it is just as important to sing about beautiful mornings as it is to talk about slums. I just couldn't write anything without hope in it.
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God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART.
