Eric Metaxas Quotes
The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises.
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So I feel a responsibility to help first-time film-makers in Brazil, but also to increase the dialogue between film cultures which are really wonderful and so much closer to us than what we do see on our screens.
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When my lady and I sit down and watch TV, I find she gets annoyed at characters because they don't do what she would do in the situation. I'm always like, 'Well, she has to do that because that's what the story is.'
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I know a lot of people struggle with the idea of Jesus and their idea of God. I think, if you don't even know what you're praying to or who you're praying to, based on what I know to be true, regardless, God's always listening.
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I will go running when I'm stressed out. The running helps, but more than anything, I'll put music on and then I'll run. I'll cry and get it all out.
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Curiosity begins as an act of tearing to pieces or analysis.
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I have a knack for choosing the wrong people.
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Very old fashioned to say that they will be well behaved but I think it's very important.
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I just want to show the fans my big smile and play the game that I love.
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There are no major cities I haven't been in - at least once. I'd be just as happy not to go out of town for a couple of months and play with toys.
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I have a box of things from Becca, my high school girlfriend, and Vanessa; and each one of them was love. I have the notes, the valentines, 20 mixed tapes, all of it. It's important to keep that stuff.
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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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It's hard to remember, when you look at a magazine or when you look at pictures of people, and you forget that those people are people like you. They have flaws and insecurities. That's so easy to forget, even for me, as somebody who's sometimes in those magazines.
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People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
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My dad's a bodybuilder. My whole life I've been taught to train the hard way. I believe in earning strength, not buying it. My grandfather raised me old school: In baseball, you work for whatever you get.
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You are never to allow a shadow of doubt to enter your mind that the Creator intended you to win in life's battle.
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They call it The New Avengers but it's really the old Avengers with new people except for me, looking rather fat and rather old.
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My grandmother was very fierce and gruff. She was quite small, but she was very wide.
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I think as I've gotten older, I've learned to look at life and take every day as it comes.
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I have been very lucky, I have won prizes and I've even won the lottery.
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Please go for your dreams. Whatever your ideals, you can become whatever you want to become.
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The word "democracy" is a Western word obviously. It doesn't exist in Arabic. Democratiya is a loan word. We in the Western world make the great mistake of assuming that ours is the only form of good government; that democracy means what it means in the Anglo-American world and a few other places in the West, but not many others. Muslims have their own tradition on limited government. Now in Islam, there is a very strong political tradition. Because the different circumstances, Islam is political from the very beginning.
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My books always focus on the response of the characters to extreme events. As dark as they get, they are ultimately positive, uplifting books about children who take control of their lives and overcome great adversaries. I think that is why they have been so popular.
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My old friend looked at me with a new respect. He was discovering in me a capacity for hypocrisy that he had never credited me with before.
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The logical conclusion of relativism is absurdity. Non-sense. A worldview that undermines its own premises.
