Francis Chan Quotes
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If people want to really know what's up with me then they can read one of my interviews.
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Getting old is a fascination thing. The older you get, the older you want to get.
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Write how you want, the critic shall show the world you could have written better.
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We want to encourage people to talk to one another.
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People believe what they want to believe.
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I realized, 'Oh, it's easier to get what I want if I embrace the sex symbol thing.' Microphones are more in my face, and I can say things about the kids that I mentor and open more access to more doors.
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I don't pray because I don't want to bore God.
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That's the biggest part of doing comics: You have to create stuff that makes you want to get out of bed every morning and get to work.
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I want every Grammy.
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There is no substitute to taking a lot of a catches as a youngster if you want to do slip catching - you've got to catch, catch, catch. And more than doing the normal stuff, you have to vary your catching - you've got to take some catches with the tennis ball, you got to take some closer, some further away.
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I don't like giving up hits and stuff, but I try not to show it. I don't want the hitter to see that something bothers me.
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Exceed your customer's expectations. If you do, they'll come back over and over. Give them what they want - and a little more.
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We want laws to be applied predictably.
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When I want a long ball, I spin my hips faster.
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Keep working hard and you can get anything that you want.
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You want to know what judicial activism is? Judicial activism is judges imposing their policy preferences on the words of the Constitution.
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But I really believe that you don't do music because you want to, you do it because you have to.
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Professionally, I have no major goals. That's partly because I'm really flaky. I want things, but I don't go after them. I'd rather they be placed in my lap.
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Writers want publicity all the time, and they are always nagging their agents and publishers to give them more publicity, but, when you get it, it's kind of soul-destroying.
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We worked on solving the problem of voice communications in a noisy military environment. We established military codes that are highly audible and invented selection tests for personnel who had a superior ability to recognize sound in a noisy background.
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I was raised in Harlem. I never found a book that took place in Harlem. I never had a church like mine in a book. I never had people like the people I knew. People who could not find their lives in books and celebrated felt bad about themselves. I needed to write to include the lives of these young people.
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So I decided on science when I was in college.
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It is about grabbing what you see on the Web, organizing it, and sharing with it with somebody.
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God wants to change us so much that it intrigues others.
