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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Travel is glamorous only in retrospect.
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I tried to be just a singer of standards when I was starting out. And there was nothing special enough about my voice to make it that far. So I feel a bit like Rod Stewart. Once you've had that rock career, people will give you that chance where otherwise they might not.
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I love that people can't place me. They don't know my name. That's 'mission accomplished' in my world.
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I like to say what I think, and if it happens to push buttons, sorry.
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The very first song I wrote was about a boy that I was obsessed with.
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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.
