Philip Yancey Quotes
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I was shy. I was painfully shy, until fifth grade when I transferred to another school and befriended the class clown. And one day he was sick and I kinda stepped in for the class clown and I said, 'Wow, this is exciting, I'm a little bit nervous.'
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I think when you see 'Ridiculous Six,' the show speaks for itself in terms of its treatment of American Indians.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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Police are reluctant to label a murder as a possible serial homicide.
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Oh I've done bungee jumping. Skydiving, I have motorcycles that I ride. I'm a little bit of an adrenaline junkie in that way.
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Show business is fickle, and though I have been blessed with a healthy career, who knows how long that will last?
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I recently went to New York for the first time, and honey, I'm in love with that place. I'm obsessed with its sausages.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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Let the path be open to talent.
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I love Billy Joel. I cry sometimes when I hear 'The Stranger.' 'You May Be Right' may be one of the greatest songs ever written.
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I was poor. When you're poor you work, and when you're rich you expect somebody to hand it to you. So I think being reasonably poor is very good for people.
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It's a blessing to have fans acknowledging your craft, period.
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I never drink anything hot; I don't like hot drinks, very strange.
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It hasn't really made it easier getting film work. It's not like I can call up a studio or a producer and say - insert haughty voice here - 'It's Parker. I guess you might know me as the indie queen. I'm wondering if you have any projects for me to be in.'
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Adversity leads us to think properly of our state, and so is most beneficial to us.
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Twitter is all about user experience - the fact that it is so easy, so clean, so unencumbered has won it so many users and fans, for so many different reasons.
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My wife will tell you it's the little things, like driving my boys to school on my days off so she can rest. We're not into PDA, but every time we end a phone conversation, we say 'sarang,' which means love in Korean.
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The laws of morals and the laws of music are the same.
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Throughout my career, I have discovered and rediscovered a simple truth.It is this: the ability to concentrate single-mindedly on your most important task, to do it well and to finish it completely, is the key to great success, achievement, respect, status and happiness in life.
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Beautiful things grow to a certain height and then they fail and fade off, breathing out memories as they decay.
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The classic epic fantasy is good versus evil, underdog against power.
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'…And the rising sun shall rise yet higher, destroying with its flaming fire the evil will of the wicked West, but smiling warmly on the rest'
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In some ways, evil is backhanded proof of Gods existence.
