Mark Batterson Quotes
What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.
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In theory there is no difference between theory and practice. In practice there is.
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I do a lot of inspirational talks for kids, to motivate them to change their lives and give them hope.
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Our own CIA has a storied history of interfering in elections. In the late '40s, we shoveled cash into France and Italy after World War II to defeat the Communists who had been part of the wartime resistance to the Nazis and Fascists.
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The world can be very small. That's why you have to be very careful, whoever you meet.
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If there's anything that would unite the world, it would be music.
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Society exists only as a mental concept; in the real world there are only individuals.
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My father is a very successful man in the corporate world, and I am his only son. He had certain dreams for me. I was scared to tell him that I wanted to be an actor.
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I would like to spend Christmas in different countries all over the world. I love seeing how different cultures celebrate the holidays in their own unique ways.
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It's got to be harder in real life to win a World Cup. But depending on if you play World Class level on FIFA, it's going to be difficult to win in the video game, too.
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I would like to do something to help people and help the world.
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There are more books in the world than hours in which to read them. We are thus deeply influenced by books we haven't read, that we haven't had the time to read.
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Like the United Nations, there is something inspirational about New York as a great melting pot of different cultures and traditions. And if this is the city that never sleeps, the United Nations works tirelessly, around the clock around the world.
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Let the message go out - a new generation has taken charge of Labour which is optimistic about our country, optimistic about our world, optimistic about the power of politics. We are optimistic and together we will change Britain.
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This world was not created piecemeal. Africa was born no later and no earlier than any other geographical area on this globe. Africans, no more and no less than other men, possess all human attributes, talents and deficiencies, virtues and faults.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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I fell even more deeply in love with Tolkien's legendarium after studying Old English literature at uni, as I got a sense of the historical events and cultures that Tolkien used to create his world. My favourite of his imaginary locations is Lothlorien.
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I have been out again on the river, rowing. I find nothing new.
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Everybody that's employed by 'WWE' - the biggest wrestling company in the world - should be good wrestlers able to tell good stories.
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You can't really ignore what's going on in this planet, in our world, and the way it's all falling apart.
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I’d rather be a straight ‘self-proclaimed homosexual’ than a racist, ignorant, hate-filled bigot in Rise Up Australia any day. This party wants to end multiculturalism and discriminate against anyone different. What this mob intends as a grievous insult, I take as a compliment. Long live equal rights.
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I believe that the main lesson of relativity and quantum theory is that the world is nothing but an evolving network of relationships.
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Everyone's future is, in reality, uncertain and full of unknown treasures from which all may draw unguessed prizes.
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I'm always in a state of trance, I'm not very often in the real world.
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What's unique about Washington is that no one's from here. Almost everybody came here to change the world, to make a difference.
