Francis Chan Quotes
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I like everything perfect. Everything has to be neat. My sister is 5, and she's more messy than I am. I make my bed every morning, everything's perfect. My shoes are all arranged. It's sad. I'm a little like Ray, a little bit.
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Judge of your natural character by what you do in your dreams.
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Not that we didn't have close relationships with our parents - I'm very close to my mom - but parents didn't think anything of going off for a few weeks and leaving their kids.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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Peoples do not defy repression and death, nor do they remain for nights on end protesting energetically, just because of merely formal matters.
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There can be no defence like elaborate courtesy.
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If I had a gun to my head and I had to choose between theater and film I'd choose theater.
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A lot of people can't remember things because they weren't actually there to begin with - they don't take it all in.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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I've always been quite a happy person, but when I'm low, I'm pretty darn low.
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I think I have a strange relationship with time. I'm not really aware of that time passing. I don't feel that I'm wasteful with time. But I'm not aware of it passing.
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I'm from Long Beach - not the best area in the world - and I had a lot of ghetto friends growing up.
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One thing that is not to be underestimated is American culture's influence on the rest of the world.
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I prefer to leave the paintings to speak for themselves.
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If you want to meet a woman, it's best just to smile and say hi.
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When people are in the midst of really heavy stuff and still have a sense of humor, I admire that.
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I love candy!
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The best thing about being in New York is the people, and you get to walk everywhere.
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Earth Democracy connects people in circles of care, cooperation, and compassion instead of dividing them through competition and conflict, fear and hatred.
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I have learned by some experience, by many examples, and by the writings of countless others before me, also occupied in the search, that certain environments, certain modes of life, certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.
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I'd rather be a working actor and not hiding anything in my personal life.
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I had a lot of questions, but they were more about the character than the plot. Greg and I talked a lot about the details of her inner life and the way she coped, a lot more than how I was going to look. Since the story is open to interpretation, I thought it was really important that the character be emotionally accessible, that the audience would be able to identify with her struggle.
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Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?
