Jerry B. Jenkins Quotes
Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
Quotes to Explore
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Free people make the only milieu possible in society for the full gift of one's self to church, state, and family. Free people enjoy and sustain and feel with one another because they live for one another. The paths of life are intermingled lives.
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Definitely for me, my personality, having children was a definite sea change. I found it very, very hard to balance show business and being a dad. The narcissism of show business and the complete, total focus of it was very difficult.
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The guitar is such an incredible instrument; it plays classical, flamenco, jazz, country, bluegrass, rock, acid, blues. You'll never see a clarinet playing Black Sabbath. But you will see a guitar in a clarinet band playing rhythm. It is the most popular instrument in the world; it is the one everybody loves.
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The main purpose of life is to live rightly, think rightly, act rightly. The soul must languish when we give all our thought to the body.
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I never thought I'd be in a position where people would be talking about my sexuality and saying how good I look in underwear.
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'Dog Days' was recorded with pens and the wall, and half a stolen drum kit that was out of tune, in what was basically a cupboard. The only instrument I could really play was my voice, so we just layered everything a hundred times. It was enthusiasm over skill.
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Adele's like a beacon of honesty. Doesn't compromise, goes to America and she's still the same sweary cockney.
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I could do a franchise for the end of everything. 'The End of Dogs,' 'The End of Cats.'
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With Spotify, people don't get it until they try it. Then they tell their friends.
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If there's one message I want people to take away is never compromise being your authentic self. Even if that means making others uncomfortable.
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Some people are enraged, and some people are applauding. If there were a mission statement for graffiti, that would be it.
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At the high school level, the coaches get these kids in revenue-driven sports and take them away from baseball. There's so much pressure on these kids to even play spring football. We need to get the African-American players back in the game, which I think would make it not only a better game, but more exciting and entertaining for everyone.
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I think every movie is its own little world, and a director certainly sets the tone.
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It was Nate Monaster who encouraged me to be a writer.
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Fortunately, as it pertains to guns, my dad and uncle introduced me to guns the way it needs to be done: smart, slow and safe.
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America thrives on identity politics, left and right. But France is opposed to the idea. Since the Revolution, the French have enthroned the idea of universalism. All of us must be equal before the law as abstract individuals, and that extends to the arts.
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Designer clothes worn by children are like snowsuits worn by adults. Few can carry it off successfully.
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If children have an interest in nature, they will understand. I want them to become people who appreciate the consequences the next generation will suffer if we destroy our natural surroundings. So without a doubt, they need to learn that nature is vital to us by experiencing it. I want them to like nature and to climb mountains and so on.
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I wanted to be, you know, just no different than anybody else.
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If you're in a hit movie, it's good to be in another hit movie straight away.
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I don't know what it is about me, but I don't think of myself as sexy; I never have.
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Music is a lot more like solving an intricate puzzle with moments of pure, random creative bliss... whereas painting is much more purely random creative bliss with moments of problem solving.
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When we make our own calculations, we need so many numbers and factors that any mistake is possible. The Lord's calculation boils down to love.
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Of course, bad marriages are so pervasive that they have invaded the faith community too.
