David Jeremiah Quotes
Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.
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I've been really lucky with the people that I've gotten to work with. I learn a lot from them, just by watching them.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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I don't care about how much other actors get.
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I think what's important in a good manager and a good agent is that they know your vision and that they are passionate about you and believe in you. Because if they don't, then they're not going to work hard for you, and they're going to send you out on things that you don't want to do.
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I don't like baseball movies. I like movies about moral courage and people who are indomitable and courageous and right.
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The Taliban is the Muslim version of the Salem witch trials.
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Desire then is the invasion of the whole self by the wish, which, as it invades, sets going more and more of the psychical processes; but at the same time, so long as it remains desire, does not succeed in getting possession of the self.
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I think I'm the kind of person who would be very difficult to employ - I'm pretty annoying, but driven.
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I was pretty taken with Patti Smith, she was my heroine.
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I've had the most untraumatic life a human being can have. But I've always been drawn to those who have had far more complicated histories.
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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There is no birth of consciousness without pain.
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At the risk of sounding like Virginia Woolf, I could live on £700 a year.
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We run to win, not just to be in the race.
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Every song I write is autobiographical and is about people, and that's one of the things that gets complicated. You have to decide where's your place as a songwriter.
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Writing, more than any other art, is indexed to the worthiness of the self because it is identified in people's minds with emotion.
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I'm not going to lie. I check the iTunes charts. It's all about the iTunes charts. I only go on the Internet for the iTunes charts and basketball blogs.
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At 39, I was back in a Red Wings uniform and loving it.
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My favorite period is World War II, and I'm in the middle of writing my fourth novel set in that era.
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The world of politics is always twenty years behind the world of thought.
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I speak French, German, English, and Dutch, and I can say a few words in Spanish - none of these languages have anything to do with Valyrian.
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The culture of philanthropy is alive and very well in Africa. International aid strengthens and extends it, but in the communities where I have spent time, it is all-pervasive.
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In 2007, I had on-paper success. I got to go to that Aspen comedy festival, which was pretty exclusive, I guess. Then I did Carson Daly. That was enough validation.
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Live as a credible witness. If our actions don't line up with the message we're proclaiming, we risk losing our credibility.
