Francis Chan Quotes
Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
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I cannot determine what people or nations should do, but I do think that extremism gives birth to following and subsequent extremism.
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I don't start writing a script until I can see it all in my head, then it's a matter of getting it down in white heat.
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Education without values, as useful as it is, seems rather to make man a more clever devil.
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Because with Black Label and all the fans it's just one big family.
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I am cursed with computers; something always goes wrong.
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I believe in helping young people rock causes they care about because I was one of those young people... a long time ago.
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When we have lost everything, including hope, life becomes a disgrace, and death a duty.
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In Beverly Hills, around 3 P.M. on Bedford Drive, a strange rite occurs. All the men and women who have had facial surgery leave the their surgeons and walk up and down the street bandaged like mummies in Prada, waiting for their loved ones to pick them up.
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I love life in spite of all that mars it. I love friendship, jokes and laughter.
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How is it even sustainable in 21st-century America that women earn, on average, 77 cents for every dollar earned by men?
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I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always trying to stay connected that way and the irony is that it's actually disconnecting us from everything else because we're not just focused on what's in front of us; we focus on what's in our hand or off to the side.
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I know a lot of people that have had fake Twitters... actors and musicians that I know. It's sort of a problem. There are all these people that sign up thinking that they're getting somebody's real thoughts when it's just some guy.
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My philosophy is, unless you're sick and need help, why bother?
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I'm not clever enough to be in machinations and real politics.
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The first time I did a school play was the first time I felt I was good at anything at all. I just loved it.
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One thing I know that's true about horror fans of any color is they like to be scared. And the easiest place to be scared is in a new thing.
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My critique of democracy begins and ends with this point. Kids must be educated to disrespect authority or else democracy is a farce.
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That is why I say the nation needs a leader. Dr. Manmohan Singh has not even visited all the states in the five years of his prime ministership, while Advaniji is a leader who has, at some point in time, spent a night in our 400 districts.
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When you play the king of elves and alien warlords, little me is very uninteresting. But, at the same time, actors feel this obligation to be transparent, and I truly don't understand the point.
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We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history of the United States.
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Concentration camps were entirely a matter for the police and had nothing to do with the administration.
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One of the reasons people stop learning is that they become less and less willing to risk failure.
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It was an old fear, a fear that has never left me: the fear that, in losing pieces of her life, mine lost intensity and importance. And the fact that she didn’t answer emphasized that preoccupation. However hard I tried in my letters to communicate the privilege of the days in Ischia, my river of words and her silence seemed to demonstrate that my life was splendid but uneventful, which left me time to write to her every day, while hers was dark but full.
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Our greatest fear should not be of failure but of succeeding at things in life that don't really matter.
