Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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 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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The promise of any artwork is that it can hold us - viewer and maker - in a conflicted or contestable space, without real-world injury or loss.
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We don't have to See eye to eye to Agree.
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In many ways connection has been disastrous. We have confused information (of which there has been too much of) with ideas (of which there are too few. I found out much more about the world and myself by being unconnected.
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We know that nature is described by the best of all possible mathematics because God created it.
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Oh Cup-bearer, set my glass afire with the light of wine!
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God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART.
