Marvin Olasky Quotes
I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.
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There is a triangular relationship between poverty, child labour and illiteracy who have a cause and consequence relationship. We will have to break this vicious circle.
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I'm married. I've been with my husband for six years. Now that I know what a healthy relationship is, I find I can write better about the unhealthiness of relationships.
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You're creating new things in movies and people are going to steal them.
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When I was in high school in the early 1970s, we knew we were running out of oil; we knew that easy sources were being capped; we knew that diversifying would be much better; we knew that there were terrible dictators and horrible governments that we were enriching who hated us. We knew all that and we did really nothing.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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Responsibility is what awaits outside the Eden of Creativity.
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I hope to continue building my acting career and work more on projects that fulfill my artistic thirst.
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I think comedy is one of the hardest things to do.
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It would be a foolish high representative who worked that way.
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I don't weigh into politics.
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When Nike says, just do it, that's a message of empowerment. Why aren't the rest of us speaking to young people in a voice of inspiration?
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I don't think 'Sugar Man' is a music doc any more than 'The Social Network' is about computers. It just happens to have the best soundtrack ever.
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I feel that we, as Indians, have a knack for loving a stereotypical, sobbing, sympathy-seeking personality. I feel that we need to promote quirky, cool and youthful talent. We have to stop propagating the sob-story angle of celebs, where they try to be larger-than-life. That is very outdated. It is so boring that it puts you to sleep.
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I made a commitment... both to myself and to some supporters to carefully consider a run for the Liberal leadership for the Liberal Party of Canada.
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Even President Obama has not suggested he could get another country to pay for building a wall between Mexico and the United States.
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I have been fortunate to be able to have a career playing comedy and drama. And it's awfully hard - it's like apples and pears to compare the two.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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I think that anything that has privileges have responsibility and all people that is clear about their responsibility has compromise.
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I've experienced love and ambition and desire in my life, but never in the same way as in a family.
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Hank's the most amazing person on the planet, and if it's not him, there's no one else I want to be married to.
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I kept getting offered all this young adult stuff. I don't want to keep telling teen coming-of-age stories!
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Engvall: Yesterday, my son was out in the yard playing with his friend, and he hit his friend. I walked up to him, and I said, 'Hey...' (pantomimes hitting his son) 'We don't hit'. He looked at me like, 'Here's your sign, Dad'.
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Philosophers and theologians, like the vulgar, prefer contradiction to enlightenment. They refute one another more gladly than they learn from one another, as though man lived by shunning error and not by loving truth. Accept their formulas and they sink back into their easy chairs and comfortably doze.
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I grew up Jewish, became an atheist and a Marxist, and 28 years ago, at age 26, became a Christian.
