J. Gordon Melton Quotes
It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's relationship with God and one's relationship with people. The gimmick may attract you for the moment, but it's the substance that will hold you there.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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Banks are concerned the central bank is imposing too many regulations. If the trend continues, we'll swing to heavy regulation. We need to have balanced regulation to encourage the economy.
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I was always looking for evidence of these common musical roots, but I was too young to know that what I was doing was called ethnomusicology.
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It's not like I've ever been the popular pretty girl at school or anything. I was always such a weirdo.
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We make a ladder for ourselves of our vices, if we trample those same vices underfoot.
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All issues are women's issues - and there are several that are just women's business.
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The idea of collaborating with anyone else was quite daunting. If Battles had any trepidation in asking me, I can assure you I had more after agreeing to do it.
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I love sportswear in my own weird way. Fashion is such a personal journey for me. I'm much more of a girl that's a T-shirt, legging, layering kind of thing, and outerwear.
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I'm an emotional guy.
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In the days when I was the big hero, the money wasn't much. Nobody made anything on television in those days.
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I never dreamed that shooting a film would be so hard. There was less regulation then of child actors' hours. Even the concept of acting confused me.
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I don't sleep well. I rehash everything in bed. The mind's still working.
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Companies often visit my office, or invite me to theirs, to brief me on new products, Web sites, or software before they are released - usually a few weeks or days ahead of time. I don't review most of these products.
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I've always been interested in any kind of great music, and African music is, I think, the source of it all.
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Creativity is a natural extension of our enthusiasm.
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Our atheism family tradition is traced to a - I don't know if it was great-great or a great-great-great grandmother who was a poor Irish-American woman in the 1880s in western Montana.
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I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.
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It just feels unnatural to me to broadcast anything other than the character I've created.
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I never imagined myself in films. My benchmarks were performances I saw in the theater.
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When I remember my mother, it makes me really sad. But, when I remember my father, it makes me smile.
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Originally, 'The Windup Girl' started as a short story - a very gnarly, complicated short story set in Bangkok that didn't work very well.
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Writing poetry, we live among the wild beasts, and when we touch a man, the stuff of someone in whom we believed, and he goes to pieces like a rotten pie, you... gather together whatever can be salvaged, while I cup my hands around the live coal of life.
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I like to do something different that people don't expect. That's what I've always been about, in everything I do.
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It might work in the short term, but it's not going to keep the people who hop from congregation to congregation. Church is about one's relationship with God and one's relationship with people. The gimmick may attract you for the moment, but it's the substance that will hold you there.
