Francis Chan Quotes
A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be "humble enough," and so they seek to make themselves less known and Christ more known.
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I'm not a power person. I like everyone to be on an equal footing.
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My dad only ever talked about two things: bicycles and Mercedes.
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I feel like I flunked at adolescence really badly. I found it really difficult.
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I don't have cable. I just never watched a lot of TV.
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But the working I would always want to do.
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Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
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People look at me, they know I've appeared in costume dramas and they automatically assume I must be a Tory, I must be a certain type of person.
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
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If you simply announce that things are irrational, then that alone doesn't get you very far. You have to replace rational agents with some concrete notion of what it means to be irrational.
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When you locate good in yourself, approve of it with determination. When you locate evil in yourself, despise it as something detestable.
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There are secrets at the heart of every story; there is something that must be uncovered or discovered, both by the reader and by the characters.
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I can always tell if a band has a British rhythm section due to the gritty production.
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People say it gets better but it doesn't. It just gets different, that's all.
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Most people who go to Rajasthan go to Udaipur, Jodhpur or Jaipur.
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I really enjoy my philanthropic work, traveling around the world and helping people in need. That's a lot of fun for me. It's really rewarding. You're helping people, but it's helping you, too. It puts life in perspective when you come back and you say, 'Man, it's raining again in Minnesota.'
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Every man sees in his relatives, and especially in his cousins, a series of grotesque caricatures of himself.
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I like going to see live bands. Live bands can be quite heavy, but I think it's very relaxing at the same time because you feel so happy and chilled-out.
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Although in skating you compete with other people, anyone who achieves a certain level of success is first and foremost competing against themselves. And for me, the idea that I could always do better, learn more, learn faster, is something that came from skating.
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As president of the International Brotherhood of Teamsters, I have seen private equity firms plunder company after company, taking rich fees for themselves and cutting costs until there's nothing left to cut. Time and again I've seen their reckless behavior drive companies to declare bankruptcy.
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The things that interest me are less to do with perhaps finding myself and more to do with surviving and mercy and forgiveness.
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I like cups of tea and reading books and poetry and old people things.
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When we start using religion as a bludgeon in politics, when we start questioning other people's faith, we start using religion to divide, instead of bring the country together, then I think we've got a problem.
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A person who is obsessed with Jesus knows that the sin of pride is always a battle. Obsessed people know that you can never be "humble enough," and so they seek to make themselves less known and Christ more known.
