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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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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My memories from my childhood are centered on my father's medical conditions alongside my constant desire to understand the principles of the nature around me.
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If you want people to come to theaters, you better do something different.
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Ex umbris et imaginibus in veritatem!
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If there is a God, whence proceed so many evils? If there is no God, whence cometh any good?
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My most memorable moment came in 1985 as we beat the Boston Celtics.
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Debate doesn’t really change things. It gets you bogged in deeper. If you can address or reopen the subject with something new, something from a different angle, then there is some hope. ... People are suddenly gazing at something else and pausing for a moment. And for the duration of that gaze and pause, they are like reflectors of the totality of their own knowledge and/or ignorance. That’s something poetry can do for you, it can entrance you for a moment above the pool of your own consciousness and your own possibilities.
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Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
