Corrie Ten Boom Quotes
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I tend to love actors. I was trained as an actor first so I'm drawn to actors.
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I have my own people that make my clothes because it's hard for me to find stuff that fits.
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Whenever I've been well-known or hitting the press, I've always had to get my credit card out to prove I'm Damien Hirst.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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It is difficult. You've got a lot of things outside the field. But you need to learn and understand things you can do.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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If you are being weird or silly you can be excused because you are just playing a character.
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Everybody's social life in Jordan revolves around family.
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I usually have two or three books on the go at the same time. If I'm in different moods, I want to read different things.
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The real and lasting victories are those of peace, and not of war.
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The personal things should be left out of platforms at conventions. You can argue yourself blue in the face, and you're not going to change each other's minds. It's a waste of your time and my time.
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I think there will be an increasing convergence between content and commerce, that it will be about following consumers instead of making consumers come to you, and I am especially excited about the various platforms that will allow more and more access to customers.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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We cannot control what emotions or circumstances we will experience next, but we can choose how we will respond to them.
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I'm terrified of walking into a room full of people. Sitting down at a dinner table with 15 strangers brings me out in a sweat.
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Politics ruins the character.
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There's ups and downs with boxing, layoffs are part of the sport and they can either help or hurt a guy.
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I know I'm not the greatest singer or dancer, but that doesn't interest me. I'm interested in being provocative and pushing people's buttons.
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Space seems broken and diverse because of the many forms in it. Remove the forms and pure space remains. So, too with the Omnipresent Self.
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What was a book? Not just ink and fiber and stitchery: a series of processes. To a wizard, it was not a static object--but a human thought caught and bound, made concrete through sacred technology. Magic, then, and a deep form of it.
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I dream of giving birth to a child who will ask: "Mother, what was war?"
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Affairs can be powerful detonators. They can invigorate a marriage that's flat, jolt people out of years of complacency. Fear of loss rekindles desire, makes people have conversations they haven't had in years, takes them out of their contrived illusion of safety.
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To pray only when in peril is to use safety belts only in heavy traffic.
