Marvin Olasky Quotes
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I don't give up on commitments until what I've been asked to do is clearly finished.
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Above all, we must avoid the pitfalls of tribalism. If we are divided among ourselves on tribal lines, we open our doors to foreign intervention and its potentially harmful consequences.
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I've always moved between media. Some ideas just work better in some media than others.
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I've been rapping since I was 18 years old, with a crew called Blades.
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On The Practice, I get to do what I love to do, and I am making a contribution that will, in the end, help raise social consciousness, dispel some of the myths about being large, and change the way that people view and interact with large people.
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I was not an easy kid.
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My ultimate is Peter Sellers - his ability to go broad and somehow humanize that and be hilarious at the same time. He was just relatable, real at the same time as insane. I find Ricky Gervais absolutely hilarious. Steve Martin is another hero of mine - he's a genius.
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I didn't want to be greedy. It's a mark of bad character and I always believed that pigs go the slaughterhouse.
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It is totally different making films in the East than in the West. In the East, I make my own Jackie Chan films, and it's like my family. Sometimes I pick up the camera because I choreograph all the fighting scenes, even when I'm not fighting. I don't have my own chair. I just sit on the set with everybody.
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Honestly, there's so many great benefits of wearing a kilt: It's very free, it's got its own aeration, and they're very comfortable.
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It is the nurse that the child first hears, and her words that he will first attempt to imitate.
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You don't write because you want to say something, you write because you have something to say.
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I shaved my head about 15 years ago and the first time I shaved it, I started running my hand through my hair and it was very therapeutic.
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Even in the United States, the enslavement of African descendants continued until the presidency of Abraham Lincoln. That brutal form of slavery was abolished there hardly thirty years before it was abolished in Cuba.
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I've got a winner mentality, the mentality of a champion.
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'The Lady' is a piddling little magazine that no one cares about or buys.
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It is light that defeats the dark.
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I looked up at several pockmarks in the nearest wall; if they weren’t bullet holes, the place had damned big hailstones.
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Nobody in my family was musical. I had no idea you could be a songwriter and make a living at it. It was all discovery. It was all just thrown at me.
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I've got no problem being on my own. I like the way my imagination works.
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Texas hold 'em is all about folding and waiting for that time that comes up every hour or two where you actually have an advantage and you can press it.
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If you're betting all the time, everything is just another bet. You don't even think about the money after you've made the arrangements. You're used to it.
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There is no greater challenge than to have someone relying upon you; no greater satisfaction than to vindicate his expectation.
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Those who give of themselves rarely regret it.
