Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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In the Seventies, we still had dreams and hopes of Utopia, but by the end of the decade, the world had shifted to the right.
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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I was in culinary school for a little while, but it was just too hard to cut weight and cook at the same time.
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We confuse activity with progress, and that's always dangerous, especially in war.
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Philosophers, as things now stand, are all too fond of offering criticism from on high instead of studying and understanding things from within.
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I've never used my weight to get a laugh. That is, used my size as the subject for humor. You never saw me stuck in a door-way or stuck in a chair.
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I had $20,000, and I started up JYSK.
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I get some of my ideas from watching my three daughters, but most of them come from my own memories of growing up. I can remember how romantic I was, not just about love, but romance in the classic sense - the romantic ideals: of honor and truth, of loyalty, sacrifice and fairness. Those were the elements that made a story satisfying to me.
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Son, give 'em a good show, and always travel first class.
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It's easy to show off if you are making plays all the time. But it's not me.
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I'm neurotic about children. I see dangers everywhere - sharp corners, stairs.
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When you have this many losses, you don't have a following.
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Understand that the time in the audition is your time. Really own it and take control of it. And do what you prepared. Focus on really executing what it is that you intended to do.
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All I remember is the last time I played a videogame, it was Space Invaders.
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I don't remember my mother ever playing with me. And she was a perfectly good mother. But she had to do the laundry and clean the house and do the grocery shopping.
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The Tea Party has very close affinities with independent third-party movements like the George Wallace movement. The Tea Party is still inchoate, still trying to figure out what it's going to become.
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I feel enormously proud to be part of East Anglia's Children's Hospices and to see the wonderful life-changing work that you do.
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I always tell women to use the fact that we offer a different point of view in a room full of men, to their advantage. Because we often stand out, we gain a unique platform to demonstrate our knowledge and capabilities.
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Christianity remains to this day the greatest misfortune of humanity.
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Everything you want is coming. Relax and let the universe pick the timing and the way.
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I know little stories that happen to people around me, and I can repeat that in a way that has some color.
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Roses by the head, jasmine at the feet so appear the longings that have passed without being satisfied, not one of them granted a night of sensual pleasure, or one of its radiant mornings.
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I love going on location, and the location was nice.
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Forgiveness is not an emotion; it is an act of the will.
