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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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 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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I thank my dad for leaving me such a wonderful, wonderful heritage.
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Training is vital. You need to know the technical aspects of acting, just in case someone hands you a monologue and simply says, 'Cry here and laugh here.' You have to be able to make sense of it all.
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I was good friends with Frank Sinatra, I heard Steve Kaufman painting his portrait, so I asked Steve to paint my portrait.
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A lot of times we look at the whole world and think, 'it's so daunting, how can we change the whole world?' and you don't need to do that, what you need to do is change your world a little bit, and see if you can, through example, inspire others to do the same thing.
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I don't do guilt. Whatever I do, I do it happily.
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The social environment interacts with brain chemistry. Manipulating a monkey into a lower position in the dominance hierarchy made his serotonin drop, while chemically enhancing serotonin elevated the rank of former subordinates.
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Has your relationship with God changed the way you live your life?
