Robert H. Schuller Quotes
Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.
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The reason for not getting married was that I just didn't have a partner to get married to. Climbing mountains was more attractive to me than marriage, or other fun things like that.
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Bodhisattva is enlightened in the Buddhist philosophy, religion, tradition. He's enlightened. It's fine - I don't really fight it - but many people use the term 'zen' and terms like 'nirvana,' 'enlightenment' in an almost superficial way. It's not that complicated.
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Iggy Pop has a voice that's somehow simultaneously self-mocking, wild, precise, amused, righteous, cool, contained and bold. I don't know how he does what he does.
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People who live in glass houses... have to answer the door.
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Be a good-looking corpse. Leave a good-looking tattoo.
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If someone says, 'I love that lipstick,' I will always try to answer, honestly, if I know what color it is. It's a connective tissue.
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He that climbs the tall tree has won right to the fruit, He that leaps the wide gulf should prevail in his suit.
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I started growing my audience in small clubs through word-of-mouth. I started making music that isn't necessarily commercially viable, and it's not necessarily marketable to my peers to a certain extent.
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Basically, after an ABC sitcom I did, I ended up with a holding deal with 20th Century Fox. Absolutely cool. It pays you to be unemployed. And the bigger the entity that gives you the deal, the better.
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I am a just man.
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I love gardening, and I love cooking. I love things like that. I love creating things.
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I would never want to be selected to a team just because I am going to set a record. It's critical to me to earn my way.
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Whenever I received too much praise, it just didn't feel right to me – ever.
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The main problem is that for a boycott to be effective, you must first persuade thousands - maybe even millions of others - to go along, which is a lot of work and usually not successful.
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Have patience. All things are difficult before they become easy.
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When you're bad in the NBA, you're in the lottery. When you're great in college, you get multiple lottery picks.
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I used to play all the time. I would play football when it was light and read when it was dark.
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You count a man's U.S. Amateur titles after he starts winning professional majors. That's something any intelligent golf writer with a sense of history is supposed to know.
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Yeah, I think we did the term Muppets before we got the show Sam and Friends - a few months after I started working.
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Writing a book is as difficult or as easy as any other job. Everyone's job is difficult. So to fetishize difficulties in writing as something extra-difficult or something very privileged - I don't buy that at all.
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...and each time I pressed the shutter release it was a shouted condemnation hurled with the hope that the picture might survive through the years, with the hope that they might echo through the minds of men in the future - causing them caution and remembrance and realization.
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A Republic without parties is a complete anomaly. The histories of all popular governments show absurd is the idea of their attempting to exist without parties.
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Sin keeps a man from prayer, and prayer keeps a man from sin.
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Nothing is more important than honesty in prayer. There are no pretensions in prayer, so the best place to begin is wherever you are.
