Jerry Bridges Quotes
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The end of secrecy would be the end of the novel - especially the English novel. The English novel requires social secrecy, personal secrecy.
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I keep waiting to meet a man who has more balls than I do.
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My life is so full of sacrifices.
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Actually, I was born Adam Zachary Orth. Zak is short for my middle name. I was never called Adam.
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I love running and I will always run.
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Education is gathering information and reading... No human being can thrive without some form of education. How you get it is up to you - the important thing is that you get it.
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Thank you to everyone that has made me the athlete I am! God, family and friends, my competitors and supporters! You have all had a hand!
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I never do research unless it's extraordinary circumstances.
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Indigenous people have discovered that Christianity is not inherently Western but universal - 'translatable' into any cultural idiom.
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I just think of everything I do and how happy it will make me to do it. I don't like having my photograph taken, for instance, so I don't do that often.
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I'm not a libertarian in the sense that I think all these social programs should be abolished in any sense.
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A teacher who can arouse a feeling for one single good action, for one single good poem, accomplishes more than he who fills our memory with rows on rows of natural objects, classified with name and form.
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The animals of the world exist for their own reasons. They were not made for humans any more than black people were made for whites or women for men.
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It's now widely recognised that a diverse research group is usually stronger, more creative, and more robust and flexible. Such a group usually copes better in a downturn.
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I've found that the more friends I have, the luckier I am.
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People get caught up in worshipping certain rappers, or they try to demonise hip hop by looking at what certain rappers are doin' in their lives.
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I like Akon, I like some of Lil Wayne when he uses that funky voice. Anything progressive.
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I was bullied from the age of 11 onwards. I was always much bigger than the other kids. I spoke nicely, didn't swear, and I refused to try to fit in and be like everyone else. People assumed I thought I was above everyone else.
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I always create book soundtracks to capture the overall mood I'm going for and listen to them as I write. Those songs and scores really fuse with the scenes in my mind.
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Remember that it's okay to get help, and it doesn't make you weak.
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'A girl can’t control who will and who won’t fall in love with her, Ethan. And sometimes, when a nuisance person falls in love with you, it can be awfully… awkward.'
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Our freedom can be measured by the number of things we can walk away from.
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I was pretty much a homebody; didn't really go to school dances, never went to a prom. I was a bit of a loner, a geek.
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No circumstance is so big that He cannot control it.
