Francis Chan Quotes
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I think if you talk to my colleagues, I was less than a fearsome individual.
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Lesser artists borrow, great artists steal.
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I'm not about my breasts; I'm just about good health, OK. I'm not afraid of doing what I need to do to stay here. I really don't understand women who are in denial, who don't want to go for a mammogram. I think it's stupidity. Sorry. I have no patience for that.
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I'm rooting for Saudi Arabia getting a seat on the U.N. Human Rights Council.
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In business, the competition will bite you if you keep running, if you stand still, they will swallow you.
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The only group in America that deserves to scrutinize what we are doing... are parents.
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Our children are counting on us to provide two things: consistency and structure. Children need parents who say what they mean, mean what they say, and do what they say they are going to do.
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It's very hard for me to find any sort of shame or blame in my life. I'm not made that way.
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People always blame the girl; she should have said no. A monosyllable, but conventional wisdom has always been that boys can't manage it.
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I would be remiss not to take advantage of this platform that I have, because I don't want any other woman or girl feeling like the way that I felt: that I didn't belong, that I would never succeed in the medium that I'm choosing to pursue because my hair isn't straight or my skin isn't light or my eyes aren't bright.
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As a teen, 'Thunder Road' was always in my head.
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What makes the bravery of the men and women of the FBI so special is that they know exactly what they're in for. They spend weeks and weeks in an academy learning just how hard and dangerous this work is. Then they raise their right hands and take an oath and do that work anyway.
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I like to think what I bring to the table is kind of a sympathetic and endearing quality, even while I'm playing outcasts or characters that end up in outlandish situations.
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Sometimes my heart hurts so much, I beat it with my fists. I try to run. But you cannot run from this. It waits for you. Even when you think you have escaped it, it is there.
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For too long, our country's version of an energy policy has consisted of Americans waking up every day and wondering how much it will cost to drive to work, how much it will cost to keep their business running, how much it will cost to heat or cool their homes.
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I'm just really excited to be doing what I love, and I think that's the best part about all of this.
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I will talk and act, not on my knees, but with prudence.
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If we want technology to serve society rather than enslave it, we have to build systems accessible to all people - be they male or female, young, old, disabled, computer wizards or technophobes.
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Curves are the essence of my work because they are the essence of Brazil, pure and simple.
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There’s always another problem behind the one you just solved. Does that mean that you should stop solving problems?
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In systems such as contemporary society, evolution is always a promise and devolution is always a threat. No system comes with a guarantee of ongoing evolution. The challenge is real. To ignore it is to play dice with all we have. To accept it is not to play God—it is to become an instrument of whatever divine purpose infuses the universe.
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I feel like if we can use the combination of basically data-driven hunches and bet on really first-class talent to deliver the shows, that I think we could do as well as the networks do, who basically have a 75 to 80 percent failure rate for new shows anyway - even after all that development and pilot work.
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Nothing compares to being truly, exuberantly wanted by your children.
