Francis Chan Quotes
It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.
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Kenya doesn't have much of an infrastructure for hosting a film.
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When I was a child, I was very poor and wanted everything. So when I got money, I began buying things.
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I'm very easily distracted unless I have music on. Listening to music while I brainstorm makes me think of scenes that would fit the mood of the music I'm playing.
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I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.
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My father was a minister, and it was more my mother that had the responsibility of making sure the family put out an outward of appearance of living what he was preaching. She was the PR.
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Just because someone has gone to an elite school and college does not make him smarter than the person who has grown up on street knowledge.
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I think the government should be out of the marriage business and leave marriage to the churches.
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At school I was always trying to con my teachers into letting me act out book reports instead of writing them.
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I've always believed that it's important to show a new look periodically. Predictability can lead to failure.
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But clearly at the same time you've got to get out there and connect with voters and actually respond to the needs, the frustrations, whatever problems their now saying are not being adequately solved.
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Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists.
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When all is said and done, cheap gas is an illusion, because our reliance on gas creates a whole series of costs that aren't factored in to the pump price - among them congestion, pollution, and increased risk of accidents.
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One can never take the cynicism one comes across in life too seriously.
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We want all the information because we do intend to get to the bottom of why some of these insurance policies have lapsed.
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The fundamental grey which differentiates the masters, expresses them and is the soul of all colour.
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I'm a Brit and I just put myself on tape, back in London, for a very distant American project that I thought I didn't stand a chance of getting. And then, I got a call about a week after I had submitted my tape, just saying, "They really like you and want to screen test you." So, I flew to L.A. and did the screen test. And then, I met Elijah [Wood] and did a screen test with him. And then, I had a very nerve-wracking few days back home, waiting and waiting and thinking, "This cannot possibly go my way because that would just be too good to be true." And then, it did.
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If I am going to know who Jesus is, I must obey Him. The majority of us don't know Jesus because we have not the remotest intention of obeying Him.
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This is about the whole of the international community, there is a board of the International Atomic Energy Agency where it has decided on seven successive occasions unanimously that Iran must bring itself in to full compliance with its own obligations, which have been there for years and years, for complete transparency under the Non Proliferation Treaty.
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This is the biggest win of my life.
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I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.
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The Technion didn't teach students how to open a start-up.
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To be a writer, you must be a reader, yet as many as 30 per cent of my writing students were not readers.
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It hit me that the students were talking about me, not God. I was standing before a holy God and robbing Him of the glory that was rightfully His.
