Joni Eareckson Tada Quotes
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Every writer I know got their start in a library somewhere. We read a book, and we thought, 'I want to do that.'
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Right now I think censorship is necessary; the things they're doing and saying in films right now just shouldn't be allowed. There's no dignity anymore and I think that's very important.
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Give me a mystery – just a plain and simple one – a mystery which is diffidence and silence, a slim little bare-foot mystery: give me a mystery – just one!
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Effective preaching starts with loving the people we're preaching to.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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The pro athlete is a sad tale. He signs a big contract and thinks he's set for life. I didn't think I was set for life, and I don't now. As athletes, we are important, celebrities, in demand and rich. Then we are out of the game and we are not important, not celebrities, not in demand and not rich.
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There are many things we do not want about the world. Let us not just mourn them. Let us change them.
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These Millennials are volunteering more; they're smarter than ever.
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I'm crazy about Dublin. If you went back 3,000 years in my ancestry you wouldn't find a drop of Irish blood in the veins, but I love the place.
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Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
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I have an American top hat that's collapsible and works as a frisbee.
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The reaction to 'Aftermath' has been far worse than to 'A Life's Work,' yet I find I'm perhaps a little less touched by it. In both cases, I've coped artistically by believing the criticisms weren't right. They upset me, but they didn't challenge my understanding of how to write, nor of how morality functions in literature.
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At the Hong Kong festival, we were co-producers of the opening film, 'Aberdeen,' which is the third part in a popular movie series.
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Falsehood and delusion are allowed in no case whatever: But, as in the exercise of all the virtues, there is an œconomy of truth. It is a sort of temperance, by which a man speaks truth with measure that he may speak it the longer.
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I hope that people who don't believe depression is a real thing will stop calling people crazy, because that's dismissive and not a medical diagnosis.
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I don't really have any interest in doing Donald Blake stories. Maybe it's just I don't know what to do with that sort of alter ego.
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What I like about singing is that, for me, it's a substitute for the psychiatrist's couch.
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We have put in place policies through supervision and regulation that has greatly enhanced the safety and soundness of the banking system.
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When I made my Broadway debut, I was still cleaning houses, something I'd done since I went out on my own at 15.
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I never worry about fat people worrying about thin people, because slender people bury the dead.
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I have a great spouse, Andrew Cockburn, who's also a journalist.
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John the Baptist, who we are told was related by blood to Jesus, was preaching the impending judgement of God, urging repentance and moral reform, and baptizing in the Jordan River those who responded.
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God wrote a book on suffering, and its name is Jesus.
