Francis Chan Quotes
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Those who are easily shocked should be shocked more often.
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To even get to the Olympics, I have to qualify for the 2013 World Championships and the standard is high. I know I am always going to be a few points behind the top guys.
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I still drink vodka; I'm not an advocate of drinking, but I'm no angel. I don't like grass, because it just makes me hungry.
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I enjoy doing new tunes. It gives me a little bit to perk up, to pay a little bit more attention.
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It is as difficult to define or classify Islamic cinema as it would be a Christian, Jewish or Buddhist one.
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'Big Bang Theory' is not my kind of show. It's not my humor. I don't like multicam comedies. I don't want an audience to tell me when to laugh.
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If India has to achieve exponential growth, it would have to be on the back of strong growth in the manufacturing sector.
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My first job entailed spending a summer working in a cornfield in Nebraska.
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What is important for a central banker is that you have to convey that you know what you are doing.
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I honestly wondered how on earth I would manage to combine work and motherhood.
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Every trend in my high school was terrible! I used to wear my hair in a tight bun and let two long pieces hang in the front. I'd also wear really dark eyeliner and bright pink eyeshadow. For some reason, my friends and I thought it was really fashionable to wear a short tie with our uniforms.
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I think it is good when something can stay interesting for a long time. It's not just a trend for one month.
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I was part of the generation that pushed the Internet. In fact, I broke as an artist in the U.S.A. because of the Internet.
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I remember taking my demo to every dance person in London. People were like, 'We don't know what this is!' The first people to champion me were a club in Manchester.
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For being a young guy, I'm articulate and can hold a decent conversation with somebody. But I've been able to do that since I was young. I don't think that has to do too much with schooling, it has more to do with the people I was raised around, my parents. I have respect for adults.
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One could translate the 555 pages of The Social System into about 150 pages of straightforward English. The result would not be very impressive.
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If that was on my road the council would be like 'Get that down, its a deathtrap!'
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Marcel Duchamp's 'Nude descending the stairs' is the result of the desire for motion. Here he has also eliminated representative form. This avoids the connotation of ideas which would interfere with the success of the main issue - the sense of movement.
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I can readily conceive of a man without hands or feet; and I could conceive of him without a head, if experience had not taught me that by this he thinks, Thought then, is the essence of man, and without this we cannot conceive of him.
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A principle is the expression of perfection, and as imperfect beings like us cannot practise perfection, we devise every moment limits of its compromise in practice.
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I've started working on a new album, I'm writing a new book... there are a lot of good things on the horizon.
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It's so fascinating to think about how each snowflake is completely individual - there are millions and millions of them, but each one is so unique.
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The problem to me is violence. It's not cool to kill somebody or hurt people.
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Jesus said go and make disciples, but so often we just sit and make excuses
