Francis Chan Quotes
If you want to see the big stuff that God has, you've got to take some risk and trust only in the Gospel.
Quotes to Explore
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To me the definition of true masculinity – and femininity, too – is being able to lay in your own skin comfortably.
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In the midst of fighting there is no place for public debate.
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Prejudice of any kind implies that you are identified with the thinking mind. It means you don't see the other human being anymore, but only your own concept of that human being. To reduce the aliveness of another human being to a concept is already a form of violence.
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You perhaps know me as a novelist. Literature is one of the arts – in fact, the noblest of the arts. That is not my opinion; it was first expressed by the ancients. As art, literature has many similarities with the other art forms.
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Denying our courts the ability to hear oil-related cases of great consequence to our environment and our economy is completely the wrong direction to protect the rights of Floridians.
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What's powerful about a love scene is not seeing the act. It's seeing the passion, the need, the desire, the caring, the fear.
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For 'Iron Man' I had to improv with Robert Downey Jr., which is like going up against LeBron in basketball. At one point he stopped and said, 'Can we give a round of applause to Olivia, because she's rocking it right now.'
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I'd grown up an athletic child, a competitive soccer player since age 4, with stints ranging from months to years in gymnastics, softball, volleyball.
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Madonna is that forbidden thing, the Nietzschean creative woman. Her preoccupation with a high level of work doesn't allow her to follow the usual script that powerful women are expected to follow - 'don't hate me for my success, don't hate me for my power.'
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Place honey on the altars and die, You lovers that are bitter at heart.
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I am tired and I am dying, and I want to be merciful. I want to forgive you. But when God summons me and says, But it wasn't for you to forgive, Mullah, what shall I say?
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Every Afghan story is marked by death and loss and unimaginable grief. And yet, she sees, people find a way to survive, to go on.
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Woe to him who doesn't know how to wear his mask, be he king or pope!
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In the long arcade of the bus station footfalls come back like laughter. He marches darkly toward his darkly marching shape in the glass of the depot door. His fetch come up from life's other side like an autoscopic hallucination, Suttree and Antisuttree, hand reaching to the hand.
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I think my parents love that I want to do something a little different than what they do.
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Too many kids today are playing major league ball and don't belong there.
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We've continued to expand the overall footprint of Ulta Beauty both physically and digitally in so many ways.
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I like Princess Kate. I think her style is really great. She's really, really classy and always really sophisticated.
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Financial risk is always associated with drug discovery. But the benefit that a blockbuster drug can bring to the business can be phenomenal if you can take that risk.
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You want banks to take some risk, but intelligent risk.
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We are a small, interconnected world; that we are all safe or none of us are; that we are all well cared for or all at risk.
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I love pointy nails! A cute way to add a pop of color to your nails is to make a V-shape at the ends of them in a pastel color.
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It's about very talented writers, directors, producers, and actors being in a position for their projects to be supported, but there's just not enough black projects being made.
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If you want to see the big stuff that God has, you've got to take some risk and trust only in the Gospel.
