Philip Yancey Quotes
Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
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Usually, you lose interest in a story beyond a certain point. But with 'Highway,' there was something very subtle, yet something very influential. I intended 'Highway' to be the first film that I ever made. Didn't happen.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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I think that black people, to a degree, need to have a certain level of dexterity. If we want to be at the highest level of whatever our field is, we have to be able to navigate both worlds. We all just know that you gotta be able to put that suit on and have a conversation with people that don't look like you or your family.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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Whichever party is in office, the Treasury is in power.
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I think I'm a soulful singer.
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That's a beautiful thing. The more successful you are, the more people are going to come and be a part of music.
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I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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So many roles for women demand that you make the audience fall in love with you or sympathise with you.
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Trent likes to record guitars direct, whereas I've always preferred playing through an amplifier.
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I really love Alexa Chung's style. I really think she gets it right all the time. I've never seen a picture of her where I didn't love the outfit.
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I was running for mayor of Syracuse - the first woman to run for mayor in our city, or in New York, and one of the first in the United States. I was known for my strong conservation plank. In 1969, the term 'conservation' was hardly on the tip of every citizen's tongue.
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You don't have to do anything in the movies. You just sit there. Well, that's not entirely true. You do less.
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As an actor, I'm very much a company person. And this also goes through my life: I have a dread of responsibility. I like someone else to be in charge.
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To decide to become a philosopher seemed as foolish to me as to decide to become a poet.
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In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.
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The flames of freedom which were lighted across this great land of ours in Thomas Jefferson's day have continued to burn with an intense and magnetic light for nearly 200 years. They have been fed by the spiritual fuel which abounds only in a land where an abiding faith in God and recognition of Him as the true Author of Liberty prevail.
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The more info I read, the more the Rock & Roll hall of fame seems anti-rock. Rock was not meant to be judged by panels of old people.
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CompUSA was a bad decision. We stayed too much with CompUSA, and we stayed too short with Apple.
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That which distinguishes the new thought from the old is not a denial of this Divine Reality, but an affirmation of its immediate availability.
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The secret of happiness is: Find something more important than you are and dedicate your life to it.
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Christian faith is... basically about love and being loved and reconciliation. These things are so important, they're foundational and they can transform individuals, families.
