Francis Chan Quotes
Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so that they don't have to.
Quotes to Explore
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Make that extra effort for every relationship. Whether it's with your parents, your children, your husband or your friends. It makes a difference to them. I try to give my kids a lot of solo time where I play with them, talk to them, listen to them. Similarly, you give time for your workout. You slot a time for it, no matter what.
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We fear to know the fearsome and unsavory aspects of ourselves, but we fear even more to know the godlike in ourselves.
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The way I perceive an album to sound and the way I put out mixtapes are two different energies. There's a different focus; there's a different sound.
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If it weren't for how esoteric the art world likes to be, I would love actually to play the music in the shows, painting the music that influences me most.
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The things I learned from the army - and I think it was a lesson for life - was how to work in unison with other people. How to take responsibility.
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I think cricket is there in Usain Bolt's blood. Since I got to watch from close quarters, it was amazing to see him run up to bowl. The perfect delivery stride is understandable because he is a world champion athlete. But the manner - he loaded at the crease and then bowled the ball - left me zapped. He looked like a natural cricketer.
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But things move in circles: one minute it's the models who are famous, then it's the actresses, then it's the designers.
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Frenemies are worse than enemies, and it's not just in the workplace.
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If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
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They definitely mean to maintain that the process called death is a mere severence of soul and body, and that the soul is freed rather than injured thereby.
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Football is a simple game. Twenty-two men chase a ball for 90 minutes and at the end, the Germans always win.
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Keeping a feminine approach is vital - men hate bossy females.
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When somebody's never heard you, that's the way to do it: Just give them music for free and let them decide for themselves if they like it or not.
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My rhyming skills got you climbing hills, I'll travel through your mind into your spine like siren drills.
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I've always felt comfortable in front of a camera. Either you're good at it or you're not good at it.
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Pavarotti's is the best male voice, and Joan Sutherland had a big voice but also acquired great coloratura notes.
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I was always a rebel in the sense that I always wanted to go my own road and do something that nobody else has done.
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Day to day, I love eating soup and salad; lots of stews, fish, chicken, meat and veg. I eat everything, and I don't have any fads.
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There is a certain sort of excess that is interesting, don't you think? And America is, of course, the most excessive place.
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I grew up here in New York City and New Jersey, performing on Broadway shows, surrounded by some of my closest friends from the LGBT community. My father, a minister from New Jersey, shaped my view that love is love, that we are all equal.
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If there is a God what the hell is He for?
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I was looking to show people I could act. I was looking for something that would take me away from the whole hunk riding off into the sunset thing that people wanted me to play after Brown Sugar.
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I never concerned myself with other people's decisions.
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Lukewarm people do not live by faith; their lives are structured so that they don't have to.
