Francis Chan Quotes
I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.
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I breathe martial arts every day of my life.
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I wish I'd gone to music school or just started playing in bands sooner.
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I thought if I put my book up on the Internet as a file that you could download, and I told people about it, maybe some people would download it and read it, and maybe I could get some response.
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I have a vast curiosity about our universe, our origins, and its probable future.
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Every time I go to Comic-Con, I'm jacked. I want to dress up and walk the floor and answer questions, because I'm excited about it. It's like making new friends.
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I use the city because it saves time, I don't have to do a lot of research on the setting.
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In Egypt today most people are concerned with getting bread to eat. Only some of the educated understand how democracy works.
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I want my fans to love themselves. It's almost like I want to hypnotize them so when they hear my music they love themselves instantly.
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Early in the morning, it's super tough for me to eat right away, but I still need energy for practice. I try to start out with a protein smoothie, a green juice, or some sort of fruit.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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I have had someone ask me to sign their 'Team Taylor' panties. She wasn't a teenager. She was in her 40s.
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Work is the price which is paid for reputation.
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The greatest power is not money power, but political power.
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You just have to take these opportunities when they come along. They're not that frequent; you'll get a really good script, oh, maybe once a year if you're lucky.
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However one might pray - in any verbal way or completely without words - is unimportant to God. What matters is the heart's intent.
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Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger.
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Once we relieve them from sanctions, their economy opens up, and they can sell oil and pistachios and whatever else they sell around the world. That was why Iran needed a deal. Everyone knows they fund terrorism around the world. Having that extra money will add a lot of problems and create a lot more hot spots.
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Speed is the No. 1 thing. Our core competency has been doing exactly this: buying companies and integrating them quickly.
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The proximity of a desirable thing tempts one to overindulgence. On that path lies danger.
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I am not a pessimist but a pejorist (as George Eliot said she was not an optimist but a meliorist); and that philosophy is founded on my observation of the world, not on anything so trivial and irrelevant as personal history.
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When you rebound the ball we're able to move the ball, and we want to get out and run, try to get guys some easy baskets. We don't want to come out and play a half-court game all the time.
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My relationship with my readers is somewhat theatrical. One of the main things I try to do in my work is delight my readers.
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The current relationship between Syria and Iran is abnormal. It is unprecedented in Syria's foreign policy history. A new Syria will be an indispensable part of the Arab League and it will work on improving the role of the Arab League and the role of Arab states regionally, specifically because they took a historic and unprecedented decision to back the Syrian people.
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I’ve got this amazing relationship with God that is better than life, itself, so marvelous, so wonderful that everything else can fall apart and I’m okay.
