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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I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.
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To fear is to expect punishment. To love is to know we are immersed not in darkness, but in light.
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I've had four children and I've done a good job and I'm happy in life.
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1946, if my memory is correct. Harry "The Cat" Brecheen went against the Red Sox in Game 7. I stayed home to listen, practically had my head inside the radio.
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Marvellous is the power which can be exercised, almost unconsciously, over a company, or an individual, or even upon a crowd by one person gifted with good temper, good digestion, good intellects, and good looks.
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Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
