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 would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
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War has been good to me from a financial standpoint but I don't want to make money that way. I don't want blood money.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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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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The feeling of sleepiness when you are not in bed, and can't get there, is the meanest feeling in the world.
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I worked hard and made my own way, just as my father had. And just, I'm sure, as he hoped I would. I learned, from observing him, the satisfaction that comes from striving and seeing a dream fulfilled.
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The precondition to freedom is security.
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Human life is but of brief duration. 'All flesh is grass, and all the goodliness thereof is as the flower of the field. The grass withers, the flower fades; but the word of our God shall stand forever' (Isa. 40:6, 8). Let us hold fast to the commandment that abides, and despise the unreality that passes away.
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When you want a thing done, 'Don't do it yourself' is a good motto for Scoutmasters.
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God never measures the mind... He always put His tape measure in the HEART.
