Francis Chan Quotes
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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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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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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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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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I was running an assembly line designed to build memory chips. I saw the microprocessor as a bloody nuisance.
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Destitution and excessive luxury develop apparently the same ideals, the same marauding attitude towards mankind, the intensity of struggle for material goods, -- surely showing how perfect is the meeting of extremes.
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You can just drift unhappily towards this vision of heaven on earth, and ultimately that is what architecture is a vision of: Heaven on earth, at it's best.
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After the unlawful decision to recognize Kosovo, everyone expected Russia to respond by recognizing the independence and sovereignty of South Ossetia and Abkhazia. This is true, this is how it was. Everyone was waiting for Russia's decision. And we had the moral right to make it but we did not. We were more than restrained. I don't even want to comment on it. In truth, we "swallowed" it.
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You have to have a passion for your work. How can we expect people to be passionate if you, as their coach, does not have a passion? Coaching has to be something that gives you passion and energy.
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Let yourself be silently drawn by the inner pull of what you really love.
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One of the hardest things to teach a child is that the truth is more important than the consequences.
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I love being a mother. My children fill me up in many ways, and inspire me in many ways, but I need a partner in my life, and I think most people feel that way.
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Refusing to teach a passage of Scripture is just as wrong as abusing it
