Kirk Franklin Quotes
I believe that that's why you see all these Pew studies that come out that a lot of people are walking away from the faith. A lot of people are changing what they believe because they really feel lied to. I think that it's very important for people to know what they're signing up for.
Quotes to Explore
-
Don't try and make a movie for someone else. You have to make it for you and trust that you're not that unique. And that'll matter to other people as well.
-
I only saw one English-speaking person all the way across Siberia.
-
Our country does not believe in the concept of your God and my God. We believe that all gods are one. We have different ways of accepting Him. All ways lead to Him.
-
You don't have to hit anybody on the head to be sexy.
-
The more research you do, the more at ease you are in the world you're writing about. It doesn't encumber you, it makes you free.
-
I don't think it's possible to separate out the strands of a writer's history, circumstances, life events, and that writer's themes.
-
I'm excellent at losing weight, but I've never been excellent at maintenance. I have some better days than others in terms of being hypervigilant, but with maintenance you don't know if you've been good at it until you're done.
-
I wanted to look at the mentality that can breed that sort of intensity, that kind of cutthroat, pressure-cooker feeling, especially a form of music like jazz, that should be - or you'd think should be - all about liberation and improvisation and everything.
-
It might be useful to distinguish between pleasure and joy. But maybe everybody does this very easily, all the time, and only I am confused.
-
I set the goal of getting a book contract by age thirty.
-
The interesting thing about movies, it's not always - y'know, you have to have structure etc and all those things, but an audience responds, in many ways, we walk away and certain things stay in our heads that are memorable.
-
Entrepreneurship requires flexibility and an open society, and there will always be people who succeed and people who follow. For those who lead, they have an obligation to create a better life for the people around them.
-
We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
-
A wise human would have an understanding of the supply chain and how the pieces fit together. But it's against our nature to think about it.
-
Television is a visual medium. You have to create some kind of visual interest. And it's entertainment for your eyes.
-
All the arguments which are brought to represent poverty as no evil show it evidently to be a great evil.
-
God is only a great imaginative experience.
-
Thread count is actually a lie. Just because a thread count is 1,500 on a set of sheets doesn't mean that they're well-made sheets. Truly, the quality of the cotton and the quality of the way something is woven is much more important than thread count.
-
The real questions are: Does it solve a problem? Is it serviceable? How is it going to look in ten years?
-
If someone gives you an opportunity, you better maximize it so that he wants to give you the next one.
-
I'm not sure we could spell 'shale' in 2008.
-
I think there is a lot of good in making the All-Star Team. People look at your career a little bit differently.
-
Life is an accomplishment and each moment has a meaning and you must use it.
-
I believe that that's why you see all these Pew studies that come out that a lot of people are walking away from the faith. A lot of people are changing what they believe because they really feel lied to. I think that it's very important for people to know what they're signing up for.
