J. D. Greear Quotes
When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.
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To face deflation, you have to have people accepting it and not reacting to it.
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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I first read science fiction in the old British Chum annual when I was about 12 years old.
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The phrase 'mad as a hatter' was coined because hat makers were poisoned by the high levels of mercury used in felt processing; these workers developed a strange, uneven gait as well as strange alterations in their personalities - traits that resembled mental instability.
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When I was a child, I'd see a movie, I took it for what it was, I enjoyed it. And if I believed it I would tend to be more interested in knowing more about it.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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I am a very selfish person.
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Ulysses, obviously. It was an elaborate prank, and our supposed intellectual elite continue to fall for it.
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I used to be a dancer, and for me it was a really good combination of dance and acting.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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I have a carbohydrate and protein-rich diet. For breakfast, I typically have two slices of bread with butter or jam, four to five eggs - boiled or fried - a few bananas and a glass of milk.
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I do take this insane pleasure in world-building. I get the world in my head, but I have to make sure everyone else gets it.
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One SF prediction that I would like very much to see: Get solar collectors launched to beam energy back home, and get away from fossil fuels.
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I believe that every child in Maryland deserves a world-class education, regardless of what neighborhood they grow up in.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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A lot of big studio films, which are fun and great, tend to have a formula, and you've seen it before, and it's a new version of it.
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Don't let the winds blow your dreams away... or steal your faith in God.
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Among the words that can be all things to all men, the word 'race' has a fair claim to being the most common, most ambiguous and most explosive. No one today would deny that it is one of the great catchwords about which ink and blood are spilled in reckless quantities. Yet no agreement seems to exist about what race means.
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I have been vegetarian for twelve years. And I have never been seriously ill. Vegetarian food strengthens the immune system. I think that meat makes you sick.
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If all the lawyers were hanged tomorrow, and their bones were sold to a mah jong factory, we'd all be freer and safer, and our taxes would be reduced by almost a half.
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When we realize how great a debt we owe to God, we become willing servants, eager to be poured out for God and His Kingdom.
