Josiah Strong Quotes
It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and, second, civil liberty.
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First of all, returning from motherhood, I was looking for something lighter, and I wasn't as much attracted to Kate as I was to the relationship between the two people.
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I've set the bar quite high in terms of storytelling.
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It goes without saying that it's hard to attain a certain level of success.
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I knew Hunter Thompson since the '70s, and I loved him, but he would wear me out as I got older.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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Man is the unnatural animal, the rebel child of nature, and more and more does he turn himself against the harsh and fitful hand that reared him.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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Any film I do needs to excite me at a script level.
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I wouldn't trade or change a thing, and I've had some hard times.
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One of the biggest issues for me is campaign finance reform.
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I've loved every minute I've spent in television. And I've had much more failure, as traditionally measured, than success in television. I've done four shows, and only one of them was the 'West Wing.'
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I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a kid, we had a bookcase in the kitchen filled with cookbooks. I would eat all my meals reading about meals I could have been having.
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People don't talk to me the way they would other people. They kind of look at me, but they never come over. It makes me feel like there's something wrong with me.
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Everybody knows that Alexander Hamilton was a founding father of the United States, a young father to be sure: only thirty at the time of the Constitutional Convention and just turned thirty-eight when he left behind his brilliant career as Secretary of the Treasury.
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So much of what I do has been based off of my heroes and guys I've watched come up.
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Dorothy lived in the midst of the great Kansas prairies, with Uncle Henry, who was a farmer, and Aunt Em, who was the farmer's wife.
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Die Botschaft hör ich wohl, allein, mir fehlt der Glaube
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I feel like girls should dress down a little bit on the holidays, even though the instinct is to get really dressed up.
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The one reader I'm trying to please as I write is me, and I'm pretty difficult to please.
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Always write your ideas down however silly or trivial they might seem. Keep a notebook with you at all times.
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When I find the right information, the Web is a blessing; when I don't, it's a distraction.
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I had everything working my way, strong as a bull. And still I ignored the rules of the game of life.
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It is not necessary to argue to those for whom I write that the two great needs of mankind, that all men may be lifted up into the light of the highest Christian civilization, are, first, a pure, spiritual Christianity, and, second, civil liberty.
