Bill Hybels Quotes
If you let even a little sin into your heart, it's going to contaminate your prayers. Your Christian life will not achieve its full potential.
Quotes to Explore
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Violin playing is a physical art with great traditions behind it.
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The tragedy of all of this is that it happened to me and it shouldn't have happened. It ruined my life and my career. That's the tragedy of this.
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When you promise something, you must fulfill it.
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We all need ways to express ourselves, and poetry is one of mine.
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There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.
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It may be that apartheid brings such stupendous economic advantages to countries that they would sooner have apartheid than permit its destruction.
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There's something about the silence of people listening to someone or watching someone - I just... I love that.
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A rich, robust, well-resourced public education is one of the best routes out of poverty and a pathway to prosperity.
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We sometimes think that being a celebrity is the same as being a role model. But a role model is actually someone you can touch, talk to and dream with.
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For some, being involved in a scene is a great thing because the social element can drive creativity. For me, though, it's never really been like that. It's the opposite. I've always had this instinct to escape.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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The way to tackle Muslimphobia is to tackle prejudice against Muslims. What it is not is to pretend that Islamist extremism does not exist.
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The public has heard the stereotypical love songs a million times, and they've heard the stereotypical life-or-death songs millions of times. It's good to mix it up a little bit.
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While technology empowers us to remain connected all the time, it's up to us as people to decide when is it not appropriate to be connected... to opt out when you need to.
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I think it's important to give young people the freedom to follow their ideas and pursue their interests.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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We all wanted to copy Vivien Leigh.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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MS is not really a degenerative illness. It is not fatal, nor is it always progressive.
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I like to bring my audience on a journey during my 90 minute concert. I will tell stories every few songs about the creation of a tune etc. and it gives the listener a glimpse inside my songs and then as you get to the last half hour you pick up the pace and work harder and get more into the show. It's all about stagecraft.
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To be a good actor... it is necessary to have a firmly tempered soul, to be surprised at nothing, to resume each minute the laborious task that has barely just been finished.
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I think that research is incredibly important and hopefully one day there will be a cure for cancer. They are making great strides.
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There is another form of temptation, even more fraught with danger. This is the disease of curiosity. It is this which drives us to try and discover the secrets of nature, those secrets which are beyond our understanding, which can avail us nothing and which man should not wish to learn.
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If you let even a little sin into your heart, it's going to contaminate your prayers. Your Christian life will not achieve its full potential.
