Charles Bent Quotes
Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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Twenty million more have Chronic Kidney Disease, where patients experience a gradual deterioration of kidney function, the end result of which is kidney failure.
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I was obsessed with the idea of going to college. And I took many years off after that, so I sort of missed the weird, crazy transition that was what making movies was in the nineties to what's happening now.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I was living at home until about 27 and decided it was time to move out and move somewhere else, so that's what I did. I wanted it to be the right thing to do. I didn't want to buy something out of my price range; I didn't want to be stupid with my money, so I decided to stay at home. Luckily, my mum and dad were amazing.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
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Happiness exists only if you have a lot of people to share it with.
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Toledo is better than exciting, it's happy. Because nothing is more conducive to unhappiness than taking yourself seriously, and taking yourself seriously is difficult when you're baseball team is the Mud Hens.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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I believe that, too, it's hard to believe that anybody could not believe that.
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I moved when I was 16. I had no clue what to expect in moving to L.A. I had no clue, really, about what acting was. I just knew that I wanted to do it.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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My school in St. Louis is great. They basically created a program where I can do online classes and independent studies when I'm traveling. But then I still get to go home and take classes in a normal school environment.
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Happens to everybody. Horses, dogs, men. Nobody gets out of life alive.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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Endorphins are a very powerful thing.
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I don't think any writer is a friend to the reader if he or she is not funny.
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We need to be creating a world that we would like to live in when we're not the biggest power on the block.
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We are all tasked to balance and optimize ourselves.
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Where I'm from, you learned about God before you learned to read and write. Our faith is what grounds us.
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Prayer is not so much the means whereby God's will is bent to man's desires, as it is that whereby man's will is bent to God's desires.
