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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I do strongly identify with being Jewish. I was raised Orthodox and had a childhood complicated by the fact that my father was deeply religious and my mother was not.
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We wanted to describe society from our Left point of view. Per had written political books, but they'd only sold 300 copies. We realised that people read crime and through the stories we could show the reader that under the official image of welfare-state Sweden there was another layer of poverty, criminality and brutality.
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If I could only give three words of advice, they would be, 'Tell the truth.' If I got three more words, I'd add, 'All the time.'
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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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I want to be a major force.
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A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.
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Make no mistake, our troops will be in Afghanistan and Iraq for a long time.
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Not too much, though there's a certain amount of rancour and bitterness when someone tries to fire you.
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In our view, it is important to carefully preserve (the system that) has been built up over the decades and that has also functioned as a guarantee of international security.
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Jesus said, "Any of you who does not give up everything he has cannot be my disciple" (Luke 14:33). We must honestly face the question, "Am I willing to give up a certain practice or habit that is keeping me from holiness?" It is at this point of commitment that most of us fail. We prefer to dally with sin, to try to play with it a little without getting too deeply involved.
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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.
