Max Lucado Quotes
Initially, when I first became a Christian and got into ministry, my thought was that God existed to make my life better and to take me to Heaven. Now I realize that it is not about me at all. It is all about God and that He did this to display His plan to restore the Earth to the Garden of Eden state.
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For me, the lean times were a wonderful, beautiful time of my life, struggling for many years in regional theater all over the country for not much money.
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I realized that women's liberation is men's liberation, too.
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Adding 'just kidding' doesn't make it okay to insult the Principal.
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The way women today are treated in Saudi Arabia is a direct result of the education our children, boys and girls, receive at school.
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People my age don't always know where their music comes from.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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Men must turn square corners when they deal with the Government.
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In high school, my English teacher Celeste McMenamin introduced me to the great novels and Shakespeare and taught me how to write. Essays, poetry, critical analysis. Writing is a skill that was painful then but a love of mine now.
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When I first read 'The River,' I had theories on what it was about, but once we got into rehearsal, I realized it's much simpler: It's about how human beings try to connect. The play holds a mirror up to the audience, and they take from it what's relevant to their lives.
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I was going to finish my university degree after finishing 'The Tailors,' but 'Pinocchio' made me to take another semester off.
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The first epics were intended for recitation; the literary epic is meant to be read.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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Whether I build a character from the ground up or develop one, whether within my own copyright or in licensed work, I can step into that character's mind. It takes a kind of voluntary dissociation akin to method acting, military planning, marketing, or detective work: to think like the other guy and work out what he's going to do next.
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Give the peasants neither life nor death.
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Movies can't ruin books. They can only ruin movies.
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Probably the only way Woody Allen and I are similar is that he has a lot to say about Nietzsche.
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A desire of gain is common to mankind, and the general motive to business and industry.
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Being an entrepreneur is my dream job, as it tests ones tenacity.
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In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.
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Would it be better if I'd married a Negro woman? Would they treat my child any better? Erect fewer barriers?
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Many religious people are deeply suspicious. They seem, for purely religious purposes, of course, to know more about iniquity than the unregenerate.
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On the one side was bigotry, ignorance, hatred, superstition, every sort of blackness that the human mind is capable of. On the other side was sense.
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The scientific and societal achievements of the modern age are undisputable. But after the French Revolution, modernity increasingly emancipated itself from Christian roots, thereby becoming rootless itself.
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Initially, when I first became a Christian and got into ministry, my thought was that God existed to make my life better and to take me to Heaven. Now I realize that it is not about me at all. It is all about God and that He did this to display His plan to restore the Earth to the Garden of Eden state.
