Francis Chan Quotes
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Reducing carbon emissions is important, but it is shortsighted if not coupled with reducing the toxic emissions from our heart; and that is something spiritual leaders are supposed to teach and something all thinking people, regardless of their beliefs, should practice.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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I wouldn't just lay my voice on anything. But I'd love to do a collaboration, like a Calvin Harris track, for example.
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I want to play real characters rather than young leads in very plotty things. I want variety.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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Sometimes it's bad to do something you've never done before.
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I went to see 'Star Trek Into Darkness,' and J.J. Abrams, who's a friend of mine, made this film, and I went to see it at the premiere. Believe it or not, I was really blown away by the comic timing of it.
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The conventional wisdom is that people come to the United States, and immigration is so great, and they say, 'America, what a great country.' And a lot of that is true.
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I used to record but just in my own studio or in my friend's back when I toyed with the idea of being a rapper.
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I learned there's an amazing unexplored territory in terms of narrative. Before, I thought the unexplored territory was the form, the way you shoot a movie. Now, I'm learning about the beautiful marriage between form and narrative.
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I'm very close with my mom.
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Disney made a fortune out of inventing the businessman's idea of the imaginary as the contradictory of the businessman's idea of the real.
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In elementary school, we should teach nonviolent conflict resolution and healthy communication skills, which will help children cope with issues like rejection and sexuality later in life.
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I always think that friends and family are off-bounds. I went into politics; they didn't.
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It's a weird feeling to have outlived virtually everyone you ever worked with.
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I still get butterflies when England are playing.
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I love 'Latina'! You guys have always been so supportive of me and my career. Now I have my family, and it's just awesome.
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Have I been wiretapped? Yes. But who they said wiretapped me was incorrect.
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It's a great responsibility before God, the judge who guides us, who draws us to truth and good, and in this sense the church must unmask evil, rendering present the goodness of God, rendering present his truth, the truly infinite for which we are thirsty.
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I feel like a very lucky person. From the time I was young, I had a dream of becoming a writer. Now that dream has come true, and I am able to make my living doing something I really love.
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I'm not shy about trying to find what truth there is in any genre, whether that be an action piece, a sci-fi piece, a small indie film, or a play. I'm open to it all.
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...I don't think my church's teachings were incorrect, just incomplete.
