Eric Metaxas Quotes
If America is an idea, which it is - we're not a nation of ethnic groups that say we're Americans because we have American blood; we have the blood of every nation in our veins - and there's something really beautiful about that, but it means that we are an idea and that we all have to buy into this idea.
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My mom really inspired me. She has always taught me it's not about us, it's about what we can give back.
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I don't feel that it's either necessary or appropriate for me to comment on what the NFL either says or does.
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I feel my story has been exercised very thoroughly and very frequently.
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There's a generation of people who've made their own money and are among the most generous people you would ever meet.
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A big reason why I'm not a big TV watcher is that in my formative years as a viewer, there wasn't that much great television on, or at least, television that appealed to me.
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If people don't want to come out to the ball park, nobody's gonna stop 'em.
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At some point, you grow out of being attracted to that flame that burns you over and over and over again.
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My manager's biggest dream is for me to be on Letterman. She says, 'Oh, Maggie, will you promise me you'll be on 'Letterman?' What can I say? I just tell her I can't promise, but I'll try my best.
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God made a mistake with me. I'm actually black, trapped in a white body.
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Trust is something I know has to be earned whether you're a husband, a father, or a congressman.
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I don't really look forward to movie stardom or doing a $200-million movie or winning an Academy Award.
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The West has become the world model; developing countries are dreaming of living like us, which is impossible. They should reject our model, because it is not sustainable. Developing countries should even give us the example, but unfortunately that's not what happens.
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Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.
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Everyone should play their role in tearing down the wall of hatred.
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All you can do is focus on telling the best story you can with compelling characters. If you do it right, it will endure. If you do it wrong, it won't.
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Most fathers don't see the war within the daughter, her struggles with conflicting images of the idealized and flawed father, her temptation both to retreat to Daddy's lap and protection and to push out of his embrace to that of beau and the world beyond home.
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No actor who's any good can say truthfully to themselves, 'Yeah, I'm good; I've got this sorted.'
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Looking around, I saw so many unhappy adults, people who loathed their jobs, and I didn't want to be one of them.
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Actually, I'm quite a domesticated person. I love the little things of home.
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I always give one actor an emotion to make it very easy so he or she can root to it.
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Trade him for a six-pack. It doesn’t even have to be cold.
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Music is therapy for me. It's my outlet for every negative thing I've ever been through. It lets me turn something bad into something beautiful.
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Without Social Security, poverty rates for African American seniors would more than double.
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If America is an idea, which it is - we're not a nation of ethnic groups that say we're Americans because we have American blood; we have the blood of every nation in our veins - and there's something really beautiful about that, but it means that we are an idea and that we all have to buy into this idea.
