Francis Chan Quotes
But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.
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Because I was poor I had one special advantage. When you are poor, and basic survival is your concern, you have no alternative but to be an entrepreneur. You must take action to survive just as you must take action to seize an opportunity.
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It's interesting to have two totally unlikable characters as the love interests on a show.
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The American Revolution as it actually unfolded was so troubling and strange that once the struggle was over, a generation did its best to remove all traces of the truth.
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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The funny thing is, I'm not really a big reader, not a big fan of books in the first place.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
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If I get married again, I want a guy there with a drum to do rimshots during the vows.
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We need to start looking at having a way of managing the whole ecosystem, because you can't pick away at it piece by piece, you have to truly start being coordinated and managing our resources as a system. We haven't gotten to that point yet.
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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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If Kate Moss hadn't been booked when she was 14, Kate Moss might not exist.
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In order to get beyond racism, we must first take account of race. There is no other way. And in order to treat some persons equally, we must treat them differently.
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Once you get into a feature, whether it's a sequel or an original one, you have to start all over again, and you're creating a world, creating new characters. You're also tracking emotions. You're trying to create emotion and create a character that you can fall in love with for two hours.
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The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.
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If everybody thinks of something, then it will happen. Your mind is part of the universe. It is connected, you can use its energy.
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My mother was born in Wilmington, Delaware. She's a U.S. citizen, so I'm a U.S. citizen.
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Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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When I first read the script for 'A Little Chaos,' I just loved reading it, as it is a really lovely, accessible, contemporary period film.
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The minute you start to strategize too much, the more you start to think you're in control of your own fate. And you're not, really.
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We have the most flexible and adaptive economy. Making sure we sustain the ability of the American economy to perform well is really the priority of economic policy.
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Joy bursts in our lives when we go about doing the good at hand and not trying to manipulate things and times to achieve joy.
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But God doesn't call us to be comfortable. He calls us to trust Him so completely that we are unafraid to put ourselves in situations where we will be in trouble if He doesn't come through.
