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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If someone comes up to me, 90 percent of the time it's about Office Space.
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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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There is such sadness in his human eye that Tawaddud almost tells him the truth: that he should never marry a girl who loves only monsters.
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And what is shamanism but philosophy with a hands-on attitude. Philosophy not made around the camp fire, but philosophy based on the acquisition of extreme experience. That's how you figure out what the world is, not by bicycling around in the burbs, but by forcing extreme experience.
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When you do something that people watch and enjoy as children, that's great because it stays with you, throughout your life. The things you loved as a child stay with you, and so do the people who were in those things.
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Self-taught poverty is a help toward philosophy, for the things which philosophy attempts to teach by reasoning, poverty forces us to practice.
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No one can help you write. No one can teach you how to write.
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Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it
