Francis Chan Quotes
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I wrote in the cellar for a number of years. I needed a private space, and it had a furnace, so it was always warm.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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A mind which really lays hold of a subject is not easily detached from it.
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As a woman, as a Jew, as a lesbian, as a labor leader in a time of great anti-union animus, I know that other people project their biases on me. But it is nothing like the experience of our African-American brothers and sisters, especially black and brown men and boys.
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Strictly speaking, the idea of a scientific poem is probably as nonsensical as that of a poetic science.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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The more you believe that you deserve healthy love, the more you will conquer and attract.
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I don't intend to die.
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It is the duty of the State to educate, and the right of the people to demand education.
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My favorite Oscar story was a year my brother had been nominated, my whole family went.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.
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Poetry emulates the Cosmos perhaps because the Cosmos itself is the grandest conceivable example of rhythm, rhyme, harmony and concinnity.
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For a long time, I dressed like an idiot. In college, I had a fully shaved head with just two horns. Like, a coxcomb of hair that I would sculpt into two horns. I looked like a crazy person.
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Life loves to be taken by the lapel and told: 'I'm with you kid. Let's go.'
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I grew up believing that I was fundamentally powerless.
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We figured you could download live shows for days, so we decided to go for a cream-of-the-crop approach, but not just take the best vocal or the best performances.
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If there ever was a time when absolutely nothing existed, all there could possibly be now is nothing.
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I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.
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I want to speak to the despisers of the body. I would not have them learn and teach differently, but merely say farewell to their own bodies-- and thus become silent.
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Teach your children to work, teach your daughters modesty, teach all the virtue of economy. And if not make them saints, at least make them Christians.
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I think all of our experience with Iraqi President Saddam Hussein teaches us that diplomacy has very little chance of working unless it is clear to him that if diplomacy does not work, that the threatened reality of force is there.
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People call me a socialist sometimes. But, no, you gotta meet real socialists. You'll have a sense of what a socialist is.
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Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it
