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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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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The Supreme Court has insulted you over and over again, Lord. They've taken your Bible away from the schools. They've forbidden little children to pray. They've taken the knowledge of God as best they can, and organizations have come into court to take the knowledge of God out of the public square of America.
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The past, the future, majesty, love – if they are vacant of you, you are vacant of them.
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Before I start carving the idea must be almost complete. I say 'almost' because the really important thing seems to be the sculptor's ability to let his intuition guide him over the gap between conception and realization without compromising the integrity of the original idea; the point being that the material has vitality – it resists and makes demands..
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Whenever we cannot love in the old, human way . . . God can give us the perfect way.
