James Dobson Quotes
And a lot of these things are happening around us, and somebody is going to get mad at me for saying what I am about to say right now, but I am going to give you my honest opinion: I think we have turned our back on the Scripture and on God Almighty and I think he has allowed judgment to fall upon us. I think that's what's going on.
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I would say the secret is to be enthusiastic about everything that comes into your life. To care, to care about people. To be excited about everything that comes close to you. I love to read. And I love to write, mostly.
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People have been doing this for hundreds of thousands of years: using whatever is available to build shelter. If you ponder what could be used, then building materials are everywhere.
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In India we only read about death, sickness, terrorism, crime.
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In fact, the socialization gives us the tools to fill our evolutionary roles. They are our building blocks.
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I conveniently was not accepted to film school, which I applied to in 1987, and so I decided I would become a filmmaker instead of a student.
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Wars begin in the minds of men, and in those minds, love and compassion would have built the defenses of peace.
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People love a good story, even if it's a story that has very little truth to it.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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I don't like the 'must', the 'always', and the 'never' words. I don't like 'no' either.
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I don't eat any red meat.
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I have never seen a bad television program, because I refuse to. God gave me a mind, and a wrist that turns things off.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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My grandfather gave me my first guitar, an old acoustic with palm trees and dancing girls painted on it.
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A team without hope fizzles: no flameout, no fire.
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David Lee Roth had the idea that if you covered a successful song, you were half way home. C'mon - Van Halen doing 'Dancing in the Streets'? It was stupid. I started feeling like I would rather bomb playing my own songs than be successful playing someone else's music.
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I came into the advertising business in 1952, at the age of sixteen, as a delivery boy for a stuffy, old-line advertising agency named Ruthruff and Ryan, which could have served as the setting for the 'Mad Men' television series without moving a desk.
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I lost $6 in Atlantic City once and said, 'Never again.'
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He must deny his right to himself, and he must realize who Jesus Christ is before he will bring himself to do it. Beware of refusing to go to the funeral of your own independence.
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In 1976 I wrote a lot about women trying to claim the right to work.
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I want someone to be able to say, 'I relate to this person on The Five.' You feel like you belong. You kind of feel like it's family. They feel like they know us because we reveal so much about ourselves on the show.
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And a lot of these things are happening around us, and somebody is going to get mad at me for saying what I am about to say right now, but I am going to give you my honest opinion: I think we have turned our back on the Scripture and on God Almighty and I think he has allowed judgment to fall upon us. I think that's what's going on.
