J. D. Greear Quotes
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
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I like people and I like them to like me, but I wear my heart where God put it, on the inside.
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Among famous traitors of history one might mention the weather.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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American business at this point is really about developing an idea, making it profitable, selling it while it's profitable and then getting out or diversifying. It's just about sucking everything up.
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Woman begins by resisting a man's advances and ends by blocking his retreat.
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So many good fortunes have come my way, and I'm trying to pay it forward by helping to raise money to complete 'Bulbul: Song Of The Nightingale,' a documentary that brings attention to the social and human injustices suffered by the Banchara tribe in India.
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Purity of personal life is the one indispensable condition for building up a sound education.
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The thing is, you never know with any movie how it's going to turn out. It's always a mystery - you'll do pages and pages of scenes that will never make it onto the screen.
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The understanding of Syria's devastating civil war has been distorted by the immense danger and difficulty of covering it.
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We have invented a new human right here - the right to return home after a war.
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You have to remember that I was a bright but simple fellow from Canada who seldom, if ever, met another writer, and then only a so-called literary type that occasionally sold a story and meanwhile worked in an office for a living.
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A good film demands its own score, and if you are a musician, your conscience will never allow you to do something mediocre for a good film.
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Sort of like, I have to make the Japanese lyrics really deep.
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It doesn't matter the amount of gore, the amount of shocks that you can have in a movie if the movie's not entertaining, if the story's not entertaining.
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There is one taboo against meat-eating. It divides Hindus into vegetarians and flesh eaters. There is another taboo which is against beef eating. It divides Hindus into those who eat cow's flesh and those who do not.
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It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
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Beyond politics, the West is suffering from what can be called a crisis of brokenness - broken institutions, broken families and broken souls.
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You can't shape it. You can't change it. Your life is what it is.
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Around 1980, I went back to painting with a vengeance.
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If we don't start thinking big about the CO2 problem, we may miss our opportunity to stop a climate runaway that will trash the habitable parts of the earth.
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When Christians start thinking about Jesus, things start breaking down, they lose their faith. It's perfectly possible to go to church every Sunday and not ask any questions, just because you like it as a way of life. They fear that if they ask questions they'll lose their Christ, the very linchpin of their religion.
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