John Engler Quotes
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There was a lot of me trying to be a 'fixer.' I was that kind of guy. I'd meet someone who had 'so much potential' that needed 'help.' I think that was kind of my curse for a long time.
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I have more of a desire to write songs about being an independent woman than being in love, songs about getting up and moving on even if I have a broken heart.
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Unconditional love really exists in each of us. It is part of our deep inner being. It is not so much an active emotion as a state of being. It's not 'I love you' for this or that reason, not 'I love you if you love me.' It's love for no reason, love without an object.
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I don't think you get to be pope without making some enemies, like you do when you're president.
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All of my relationships have happened organically with people who are super cool and in my life and it just moved into a relationship zone.
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The first time I saw E.T., the actual image of an alien, and he was so sweet-looking. I wanted him. I wanted E.T.
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I have this dream life where I get to be a celebrity but I get to navigate the world fairly easily because I'm always in character.
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I've seen my parents dragged through the mud. But I wouldn't be the person I am today without them.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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I enjoyed making this album a lot because of the knowledge we acquired over the last 3 years.
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I can't stand going out to one more dinner with some Mrs. So-and-So who might leave a million dollars to the Chicago Symphony Orchestra when she dies.
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If you give people nothingness, they can ponder what can be achieved from that nothingness.
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I think there's nothing that can drive you more than a huge dream or a huge challenge.
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My role models have kept on changing.
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Creativity can be described as letting go of certainties.
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It is like visiting one's funeral, like visiting loss in its purest and most monumental form, this wild darkness, which is not only unknown but which one cannot enter as oneself.
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I am not authorized to fire substitute teachers.
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Brain power improves by brain use, just as our bodily strength grows with exercise. And there is no doubt that a large proportion of the female population, from school days to late middle age, now have very complicated lives indeed.
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Personally, I think it is possible to build a society that is moral on a nonreligious basis, but the jury is still out on that.
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Agape is something of the understanding, creative, redemptive goodwill for all men. It is a love that seeks nothing in return. It is an overflowing love; it's what theologians would call the love of God working in the lives of men. And when you rise to love on this level, you begin to love men, not because they are likeable, but because God loves them.
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So refusing to say you won't do something is the moral equivalent of doing.
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May the forces of evil become confused on the way to your house.
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It was the Control album that was really about what I wanted to do.
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You win by working hard, making tough decisions and building coalitions.
