Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
Quotes to Explore
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I never want to hold myself up as the poster child of the successful mother-businesswoman. It's a total 'Gong Show.' I won't pretend. When you do so many things, something always suffers. You just can't be great at everything.
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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I was always very determined and ambitious, and I knew I would do something that would let me travel and stuff, but I didn't know really know what I would do to get there.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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When we direct our thoughts properly, we can control our emotions.
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I survived only a year in Berkeley, partly because I declined to sign the anticommunist loyalty oath.
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Schmoozers are brownnosers, sycophants more suited to middle management than to the Wild West of the entrepreneurial world.
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I was always telling my family I wanted to become an actress, and I did.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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I'm not religious, I'm not romantic and I live purely by logic. I make every decision by logic and sometimes that leads me to the right and sometimes to the wrong decision.
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On 'Paranormal Activity,' it worked to my advantage not to have much of a crew, but on a bigger movie, where you have to work with a larger group of people who basically become your second family for a few months, it can be a great experience. Even though all of my projects are small scale compared to most Hollywood productions.
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You can do anything as long as you have the passion, the drive, the focus, and the support.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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Women should wear clothing. Clothing shouldn't wear them.
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The development of methods to monitor protein dynamics in cells together with the discovery of specific and general lysosomal inhibitors have resulted in the identification of different classes of cellular proteins, long- and short-lived, and the findings of the differential effects of the inhibitors on these groups.
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Jail is definitely not cool. Education is.
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I think everybody goes through things in their life where they're like, 'This does not make any sense,' or 'I don't understand why this is happening,' but that's part of the journey of faith.
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I must represent France, and I want to be elegant, and I want the French people to be proud of me, you know.
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Control exists only when there is action of will, positively or negatively. Will is resistance. When the mind is learning, there is no resistance.
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Pray, v. To ask that the laws of the universe be annulled in behalf of a single petitioner confessedly unworthy.
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I love hospitality, and I love cooking. The kitchen is where I feel most at ease and where I feel most like myself.
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In writing, I want to be remembered for telling good stories in beautiful and powerful language, using the poetry of words to reflect the thematic concerns of compelling stories.
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The good and the wise lead quiet lives.
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Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
