Francis Schaeffer Quotes
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My mom is many times responsible for getting us all together, but we trade off at each other's houses. My brother and I are actors and are traveling a lot of our job.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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I like to stand right in front of my opponent. I think it makes for an exciting fight.
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I feel like a younger man, and I'm sure having a child and all that has to do with that.
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I made myself famous by writing 'songs' and lyrics about the beauty of the things I did and ugliness, too.
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Religion is the possibility of the removal of every ground of confidence except confidence in God alone.
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Take pride in your work at all times. Remember, respect for an umpire is created off the field as well as on.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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If at first you don't succeed, failure may be your style.
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When you get to the point where you're established enough that people link you with something, especially being an action hero babe, it's awesome. Because then you can fight the battles and have the crossbows and wrestle with swords and ride the horses because you're already believable; people see you in that genre.
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When the product is right, you don't have to be a great marketer.
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Justice is my being allowed to do whatever I like. Injustice is whatever prevents my doing so.
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You can be vegetarian and eat fish. It's your choice, just say: 'I am what I am.' There are no hardcore divisions anymore.
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What I have done in my nine year career was just a glimpse of what I can do.
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Most geniuses are weird.
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Frankly, right is right and wrong is wrong, particularly when a parent is talking to a child. A bright line around moral responsibility is very important.
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How many movies do you see when you can say this director really knew what film he wanted to make? I can count them on the fingers of one hand.
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Libya is a great country, a respectful country, and the Libyan people are great people.
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In our town, the most popular way out was joining the service. So my three best friends joined the Navy to get out. I didn't.
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You know, I'm really not interested in someone telling me that something's good or bad.
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And I know I’ve lost. Everything is lost. Everything is over. “As the newly appointed President of this fair planet of ours,” the Mayor says, holding out his hands as if to show me the world for the first time,” let me be the very first to welcome you to its new capital city.” “Todd?” Viola whispers, her eyes closed. I hold her tightly to me. “I’m sorry,” I whisper to her. “I’m so sorry.” We’ve run right into a trap. We’ve run right off the end of the world. “Welcome,” says the Mayor,” to the New Prentisstown.
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The dynamic character of China's nonstatist economic transformation, including its social openness to the rest of the world, is not mutually compatible in the long run with a relatively closed and bureaucratically rigid Communist dictatorship.
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Biblical orthodoxy without compassion is surely the ugliest thing in the world.
