Bill Hybels Quotes
Don't ask God to bless junk food and miraculously transform it so that it has nutritional value. That's not how God works.
Quotes to Explore
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I would love to direct one day. I value the relationship that I have with a director so much, and I would be really excited to be on the other end of that relationship.
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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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To show a child what once delighted you, to find the child's delight added to your own - this is happiness.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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None of our family businesses were focused on technology. It was '93 when I came out of law school, and the Internet was taking hold. So I started New World Ventures.
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Empathy is a virtue, but it should not be a guiding judicial principle.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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In Maryland, we have the unfortunate distinction of being the most gerrymandered state in the entire nation.
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There's nothing wrong with being fired.
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Nothing in this world can take the place of persistence. Talent will not: nothing is more common than unsuccessful men with talent. Genius will not; unrewarded genius is almost a proverb. Education will not: the world is full of educated derelicts. Persistence and determination alone are omnipotent.
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Men don't avoid successful women because they're jealous; they often do it to avoid being in competition with her next job promotion.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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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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All we had aboard the ship that morning was one Annapolis graduate and three reserves.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I love doing voiceover work.
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I think that my music is really empowering. I just want people to know - especially young people, but really everyone - that you don't have to be so caught up in what everyone else is thinking. You don't have to be the coolest, most popular person. You can just be you and be vulnerable.
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And a proverb haunts my mind As a spell is cast, The mill cannot grind With the water that is past.
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What is the source of our first suffering? It lies in the fact that we hesitated to speak. It was born in the moment when we accumulated silent things within us.
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Talk health. The dreary, never-changing tale Of mortal maladies is worn and stale. You cannot charm, or interest, or please By harping in that minor chord, disease. Say you are well, or all is well with you, And God shall hear your words and make them true.
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Don't ask God to bless junk food and miraculously transform it so that it has nutritional value. That's not how God works.
