Mark Batterson Quotes
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I would prefer to be a citizen of an independent country rather than Emperor of an enslaved one.
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Contrary to the royal and uptight image of polo, I want to bring it to a younger generation. This is a great sport that can have a larger audience and appeal to more people. Sportsmanship is lacking in many other sports that I don't want to name.
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It took 23 years from Abraxane being conceived to us showing now with conclusiveness that it works in pancreatic cancer. We cannot afford as a society to wait another 23 years to make sure that the patients get the right care, at the right time, at the right place.
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Planning a garden, park, building, or city shouldn't be done in an office.
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People who have a sense of peace that their priorities are in the right place also have a sense of humility and a realistic view on life.
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Insanity is often the logic of an accurate mind overtasked.
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Wherever you are, be there totally. If you find your here and now intolerable and it makes you unhappy, you have three options: remove yourself from the situation, change it, or accept it totally. If you want to take responsibility for your life, you must choose one of those three options, and you must choose now. Then accept the consequences.
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I found that being with happy positive people annoys me.
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I'm a huge hip-hop fan from way back in the day.
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I played a lot of keyboards, but I really wanted to produce the sound that was in my head that I was trying to emulate on the keys. I wanted to do it for real. And it makes me look at the keys in a different way. So it's like I'm looking at the guitar and bass more like meat and potatoes and keys like coloring over top of it, you know.
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My wife wants me to eat fish; she says it is delicious. But I don't like fish, so that is that.
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You can have everything in life you want, if you will just help other people get what they want.
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It is very hard to separate one's self from a character. Sometimes the people closest to me have to be very understanding.
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I beseech you, in the bowels of Christ, think it possible you may be mistaken.
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The hard part of running a business is that there are a hundred things that you could be doing, and only five of those actually matter, and only one of them matters more than all of the rest of them combined. So figuring out there is a critical path thing to focus on and ignoring everything else is really important.
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I feel blessed that I haven't seen or felt real pain to be immune to it. But I am dreading the time it comes. I feel blessed to have everything going fine. My parents' health is good, my brothers are well-settled, I have a great brother-in-law and my own career is doing fine. I hope and pray that I am fit and fine always.
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It's so much easier to throw rocks than it is to govern.
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I've worked all my life to shed myself of any character.
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If you have a pair of shoes that hurt, don't wear them. The ugliest thing that I think I've seen is a woman walk like her feet hurt. It's awful, so make sure your shoes fit.
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Then he knew that they had rounded the cape of good hope, and he took her large, soft hand again and covered it with forlorn little kisses, first the hard metacarpus, the long, discerning fingers, the diaphanous nails, and then the hieroglyphics of her destiny on her perspiring palm.
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Everyone wants to be paid well - I know that I certainly do. But there are lots of other satisfactions that we get from our work. To feel needed. To feel accomplishment. To believe that our work matters. Being a lawyer gives you a rare chance to experience that kind of success.
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People have told me that the dialogue in '100 Bullets' is very realistic. I don't agree.
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The way I approach things is from an experimental folk music standpoint.
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When we change the way that we pray, everything changes.
