J. D. Greear Quotes
The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.
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I am going to change the world, and I'm talking to everybody in the possible world that I can get to that can help me to do that.
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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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I support many organizations that I feel are doing the right thing, like Alonzo Mourning's foundation, Alicia Keys' foundation, the Make-a-Wish Foundation, and other well-established foundations. I kick out a lot of time and money wherever I can.
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Forgiveness is about empowering yourself, rather than empowering your past.
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Architecture is undistinguished, sometimes derelict, but occasionally, as in 'Post and Beam,' there is something arresting in a setting... the building behind the Cathedral.
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My father was raised in the mountains of New Mexico, and he picked cotton for a dollar a day. He was working for the family from the time he was 7.
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Leeks, like other oniony things, reach a certain peak when fried. It's the subtle sweetness that suddenly becomes evident and works so well with their creamy texture.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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Everyone comes with dreams and illusions and promises. Everyone wants quick deals. They don't want to invest.
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I guess my main influences are Jesus, rock 'n' roll and ex-wives. In that order.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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Ringside seats mean you hear the breaking of ribs, the splattered cartilage of what was once the boxer's nose, the dislocation of the jaw, the horrifying 'ugggh' that the boxer utters milliseconds after receiving a crushing left hook to the solar plexus or kidneys or head.
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My job as an author is to tell the story in the best way possible, to make it flow seamlessly and get the reader to keep turning the page.
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I never met a woman I didn't like. I love 'em all, in their different ways.
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If you're setting up lights and tripods, and you've got three assistants running around, people will want to get you out as fast as they can. But if you go the opposite way, if you make the camera the least important thing in the room, then it's different.
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I don't get hung up on weight.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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Rock and roll music - the music of freedom frightens people and unleashes all manner of conservative defense mechanisms.
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I never thought of myself as either a woman or a man. I thought of myself as a person who was born to a writer, who was doomed to be a writer.
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But I should have known that it doesn't take that long for change to happen - it takes a second.
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What's the greater risk? Letting go of what people think - or letting go of how I feel, what I believe, and who I am?
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I think everyone's mother is slightly nuts.
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Much of my work strikes me as pretty unified: as a lawyer, working in several areas, I have thought about how to promote freedom of speech broadly for everyone.
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The goal of the gospel is to produce a type of people consumed with passion for God an love for others.
