Francis Chan Quotes
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I joined a radical group at the age of 16 because I'm a passionate man; the good news is that I turned myself around since then. But my character is still quite free and passionate.
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The success of 'The Shadow of the Wind' made me very happy, but it did not change my perspective or the way I was.
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I don't think it's good for people to know too much about you. With my favourite bands, I don't want to have the inside track on every single aspect of their personal lives.
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I live with my family. I moved to L.A. eight years ago, and it's the same room. But I'm looking now. I might get a condo.
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My father always taught me to appreciate what you're fortunate to have and give back to those who need it. No part of our society is more important than the children, especially the ones who need our help.
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Basically, my idea and explorations on fashion have not changed; however, I believe I'm going state-of-the-art on fashion.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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I know something quite sure. We'll never have peace with this Syrian regime. They'll never give us relief, and we'll never forget that.
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If you're black, if you're gay, if you're Latin - we're all the same. We're all the same, and we all want the same: We want to be happy.
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I never understood the idea that I was a 'backpack rapper.' I think that's a lazy way that people started thinking. They like saying that because I got dreads. I look like I belong a certain place, so it's easy to put everything in a box.
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I love 'Homeland.' I think it's such a well-done, well-acted TV show.
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I used to play a lot of tennis-ball cricket.
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I know that people who have been to RADA and LAMDA can smash accents and do Shakespeare: all those things that I never really trained in.
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Philosophieren ist: falsche Argumente zurückweisen.
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They are in a high key, somewhat like impressionism or a modified impressionism. I think I'm still an impressionist.
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I think that Shake Shack wouldn't exist had it not been for Twitter. I don't think you would have gotten a hundred New Yorkers to stand in line for an hour if they couldn't have made their time really productive and organized snowball fights, ordered free hot chocolate, and, you know, Instagrammed photos.
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I like the minute when I can get off the stage and go home, and I know I've done a good job.
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We own the economy. We own the beginning of the turnaround and we want to make sure that we continue that pace of recovery, not go back to the policies of the past under the Bush administration that put us in the ditch in the first place.
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Give a child love, laughter and peace, not AIDS.
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'GQ,' you've been patiently and stylishly educating me forever. To be truly stylish, you have to be kind and courteous.
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I realize now that I was a feminist and the minute I heard the word I certainly knew it meant me, but at that time I don't think we had the label yet. But there's no doubt about it that I was born a feminist.
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Even though you can't expect to defeat the absurdity of the world, you must make the attempt. That's morality, that's religion, that's art, that's life.
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I never can pass by the Metropolitan Museum of Art in New York without thinking of it not as a gallery of living portraits but as a cemetery of tax-deductible wealth.
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God's art speaks of Himself, reflecting who He is and what He is like.
