R. C. Sproul Quotes
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Kids love to look at pictures of themselves.
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Almost all our suffering is the product of our thoughts. We spend nearly every moment of our lives lost in thought, and hostage to the character of those thoughts. You can break this spell, but it takes training just like it takes training to defend yourself against a physical assault.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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When we read fiction, we want to get outside of ourselves and are able to see from a perspective we haven't seen through before. That can be very powerful.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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Left the ranch in 1883, went to California, going through the States and territories, reached Ogden the latter part of 1883, and San Francisco in 1884.
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And I'm not an actress. I don't think I am an actress. I think I've created a brand and a business.
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Some people feel that what we're doing makes no sense, that it's just a waste of money. But it's working.
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They have a crystalline sense of right and wrong; it disappears when they walk out the door with their M.B.A.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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You learn different things through fiction. Historians are always making a plot about how certain things came to happen. Whereas a novelist looks at tiny little things and builds up a sort of map, like a painting, so that you see the shapes of things.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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The man that got me into collecting sneakers in the first place was the man they call Michael Jordan. He was the one who kind of exposed me to the sneaker world - he was my favorite basketball player, and he had the best shoes.
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I love going to theatres and seeing honest little indie films I know nothing about... being surprised by a beautiful film I had no expectations about but just got lost in. I'd like to do more well-written indies. I don't know exactly what my dream role will be yet, but it's somewhere within that realm.
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Acquaintances we meet, enjoy, and can easily leave behind; but friendship grows deep roots.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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Acting school was summer camp, and I needed concentration camp. I had so many different ideas swirling between culture and how to tie things together.
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When I have an easy run, I like to listen to music and relax. When I have to train hard, I try to simulate race conditions, and in a race, you can't listen to music.
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Live records of mine are very painful to listen to because you always think you can do it better. I don't think I have a single favorite one.
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The day I retire is the day I'll feel old. I'm not there yet.
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Amusement is a way of boredom-avoidance through external stimulation that fails to exercise our minds. It's mere diversion.
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We have no right to come before God at all, apart from the finished work of Christ.
