R. Kent Hughes Quotes
The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.
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I love to cook. My dad's a really excellent cook and his style is: Look in the fridge and make whatever there is with whatever ingredients you have and I like cooking like that, too.
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Most people work for the private sector, which cannot exist without profit.
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Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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That was one of those moments where I felt so confident. I played three matches in the same day.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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People want to help me. They want the best for me. I always say thank you to people when they try that. I never get mad.
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The best situation is being a single parent. The best part about is that you get time off, too, because the kids are with their mom, so it's the best of both worlds. There's a lot to be said for it.
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The power of intuitive understanding will protect you from harm until the end of your days.
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Acting, believe it or not, can get very self-involved! I feel fortunate to have been able to work on things with people who have a very specific point of view and perspective, and who feel like they're doing something very active.
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I'm not sure that when I read 'Treasure Island' for the first time, when I was about 10, I understood all the words or what was going on. But that didn't stop me reading it, and I certainly didn't forget it.
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I was always a writer – working on campaigns was never a profession for me. It was something I did on the side, really, so the trajectory hasn't been a political operative who likes to dabble in writing and finds himself into stumbling on film and TV – that was always my goal.
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I have been very strongly advocating that poverty must not be used as an excuse to continue child labour. It perpetuates poverty. If children are deprived of education, they remain poor.
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I read the newspaper avidly. It is my one form of continuous fiction.
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I like naturally occurring film grain, and what happens to film when it's under- and over-exposed.
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In Latin America, even atheists are Catholics.
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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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Let us not bankrupt our todays by paying interest on the regrets of yesterday and by borrowing in advance the troubles of tomorrow.
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When in that House MPs divide/If they've a brain and cerebellum, too/They've got to leave that brain outside/And vote just as their leaders tell 'em to.
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I envision a day when a businesswoman will be having lunch, and then her phone will ring. When she opens it up, she will see an image of the latest Marc Jacobs coat that just arrived in stock. With a click of a button, she can purchase it and then find it waiting for her when she gets back to her office.
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In baseball you hit your home run over the right-field fence, the left-field fence, the center-field fence. Nobody cares. In golf everything has got to be right over second base.
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This year's Veterans Day celebration is especially significant as our country remains committed to fighting the War on Terror and as brave men and women are heroically defending our homeland.
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I've been getting chatted up by men ever since I was 14.
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The true test of a man's spirituality is not his ability to speak, as we are apt to think, but rather his ability to bridle his tongue.
