John Eldredge Quotes
I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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I'll tell you, in my life I've never once have seen a Hispanic panhandler, because in our community, it would be viewed as shameful to be out on the street begging. Those are all conservative values - faith, family, hard work, responsibility.
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I started at the top and worked my way down.
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I've wanted to be an actor for such a long time that I haven't had anything else in my thoughts. I think my family would have quite liked me to be a lawyer.
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The American people know something is wrong as far as energy is concerned. They don't think they are being told the truth.
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A busybody's work is never done.
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We stole a box of honey jars one time and went out in the woods and took care of the whole box. I don't think I touched honey again for 20 years. I never wanted to see honey again.
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A good catchword can obscure analysis for fifty years.
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The one thing I do have is good ears. I don't mean perfect pitch, but ears for picking things up. I developed my ear through piano theory, but I never had a guitar lesson in my life, except from Eric Clapton off of records.
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Despite my so-so-experience with the iPhone, I do love its touchscreen technology, a feature I miss with my standard-issue BlackBerry.
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I love fast food, but you have to try to eat healthy.
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One thing is clear to me: We, as human beings, must be willing to accept people who are different from ourselves.
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I'm not into solos, I'm into lyrics.
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A good leader must be fair.
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Dating is a numbers game. What we try to promise is good first dates. Once that first date happens, it's really up to you.
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I've completely fallen in love with the U.K., and I'd love to spend a couple of months a year there.
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Life is a progress from want to want, not from enjoyment to enjoyment.
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People used to say I'm weak in comedy. But, with 'Mahesh Khaelja' and 'Dookudu,' I have proved that I am good at comedy.
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Any time you're lucky enough to get on a show people watch, it's a good thing.
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For most of my writing life, I've refused to allow myself to believe that writing was a significant form of action. I always felt very uneasy about the fact that all I did was write in a situation as desperate as apartheid South Africa. Whether I was correct or not is a different issue.
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Our obsessive focus on college schooling has blinded us to basic truths. College is a place, not a magic formula. It matters what subjects students study, and subsidies should focus on the subjects that matter the most - not to the students, but to everyone else.
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My mother moved abroad when I was 11, my dad wasn't around from the time that I was a baby, so I was not the product of a family, but a product of observation - of watching what went on around me, of watching who I liked, what I didn't like, what I thought was good behavior and what I thought was bad behavior and tailoring myself accordingly.
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It varies from song to song, although Buck Owens and I recently collaborated on writing a duet together and am looking forward with a great deal of anticipation to recording that track for the new studio album.
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I started working at Focus on the Family doing debates and media and cultural studies.
