Francis Chan Quotes
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This is the conundrum of the present regimes in the Arab world. They still want to control youth; they want to be in control as they did in the 1950s and '60s. But that doesn't work anymore. Now with just a Wi-Fi link, you can understand what's happening in the world.
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The only people who have control over their careers are the ones you see on the covers of magazines. Everyone else is just plodding along making a living. The key is not to live over your means and overdo it.
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You need people around you that care about you and are thinking about you in your best interest. And keep your mind straight.
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In general in New York, we all eat like kings. Insane quality, mind-blowing variety, at all price ranges.
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I like drums, really, if they're under control.
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Words have no power to impress the mind without the exquisite horror of their reality.
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As an independent artist, you control the means of production, which is the ultimate form of empowerment.
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Of all the things I've lost I miss my mind the most.
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Nothing is at last sacred but the integrity of your own mind.
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When I can control my own show, I want the price to be affordable so fans can actually see me. It's a challenge because I have to do a lot of navigating to make the production stellar but do it on a realistic budget.
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Sometimes I'm successful, and sometimes I'm not, but I don't mind going down trying.
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The American people have no control over what the military does. We have no say in American foreign policy.
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On a regular basis I go over in my mind some of the most troublesome things I see about how people approach eating, and the wonder mess we have made out of a very simple thing.
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Now, I don't mind making fun of those preachers who steal money from people, they kind of deserve it.
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There has been a transition from a nuclear-annihilation scenario to an isolated-terrorist-nuclear-bomb scenario. But we're still locked into a mind-set that nuclear war would be so overwhelming that any kind of preparedness would be futile.
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Many things we need can wait. The child cannot. Now is the time his bones are formed, his mind developed. To him we cannot say tomorrow, his name is today.
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You must not take out your sword because if you try to kill someone, you must die for it yourself. What you must do instead is kill yourself, kill your own mind.
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State intervention in economic production arises only when private initiative is lacking or insufficient, or when the political interests of the State are involved. This intervention may take the form of control, assistance or direct management.
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Music alone with sudden charms can bind The wand'ring sense, and calm the troubled mind.
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The protests and pain over the deaths of Eric Garner and Michael Brown had me wondering if we can ever experience the world as others do. For no matter how disputed the circumstances of both cases, many people see what happened in black and white.
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Everyone I know, including myself, has missed or lost an audition.
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Atheism is a moral position - a rather rigid one, if you've ever read the opinions of its highest-profile espousers, Christopher Hitchens and Richard Dawkins.
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Paris is really young at heart - I'm the older one in the relationship. I'm always telling her not to do stuff. If she's wearing something really silly, I'm like, "Don't go out wearing that.
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We have to learn how to control our minds. We have to learn self-control.
