Dan Abrams Quotes
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Christianity, if false, is of no importance, and if true, of infinite importance. The only thing it cannot be is moderately important.
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We are the only country in the world that has taken people from so many different backgrounds, which is a great achievement by itself, but an even greater achievement is that we have turned all of that variety and diversity into unity.
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I'm confident in who I am. I've come to a place in my life where I've accepted things that are me, as opposed to feeling pressure to explain myself to people around me. That's just the way I've always tried to be. It didn't change when I became a star.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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I could go and make commercials left and right and pretend like I am a celebrity, but that is not me.
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I want to pursue a career in film.
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The next day, I got a phone call from him and he told me to come and read for a movie called New Jack City. So I went over there and they told me I was gonna wear dreads and play a cop.
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If you ever meet an actor who's the child of actors, they'll never tell you that they wanted to be a star. But what I did realise early on was that I just wanted to be in that tribe.
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You look in my room and it looks neat enough, but if you dared to look under my bed or in my closet, oh what a mess!
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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I want to keep a thread between the studio and the stage, and I want to flow more easily from one to the other.
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All previous populist movements were demanding things from governments, whereas the Tea Party is saying, 'Give us less, go away.' That's heartening to see.
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It was not about losing my mental power; it's about not feeling good about my contribution to the game.
Garry Kasparov -
I'm mostly drawn to narratives that are difficult for me to visualize.
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We decided we don't use the term 'fat' for me. We use the term 'juicy' for me. My wife's fine with it, but the rule is when I'm over double her weight, it's over.
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One of our first jobs was at Saba Software. We were helping them build their products for the cloud. We wanted to build our own product and move away from consulting. We were looking for a change. The CEO of Saba introduced me to Marc Benioff.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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I like to say that I'm tracing the intersection between big ideas and human experience, between theology and real life.
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I want to go see Somalia because I've never been there, and I feel like I'm missing out. I want to learn that heritage; I want to learn about my culture.
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I have girls who are concerned about how they look compared to models or what have you. It's my responsibility to teach them that beauty is more than superficial.
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Don't bring your need to the marketplace, bring your skill. If you don't feel well, tell your doctor, but not the marketplace. If you need money, go to the bank, but not the marketplace.
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Somebody can say they don't understand why somebody drifts. But I've always found people who drift interesting, 'cause it shows me the game's not stagnant in their own head. They're thinking.
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But doing what I do, you will never get unanimity of people.
