Ravi Zacharias Quotes
Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.
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I'm good at description and imparting flow to a story, but I don't necessarily understand the value of long scenes.
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Jessi is a great person. She really is. She's been a friend to me all through all my bad times, and she's understood what I was doing. She came up with that one saying, which was great.
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I worked from 10 p.m. until 1 a.m. every night for a year to write the first 'Chicken Soup for the Soul' book.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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The main essentials of a successful prime minister are sleep and a sense of history.
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Books have always helped me make sense of things. With any life experience, you can find someone who has documented it in a poetic way.
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Sometimes when you think you are done, it is just the edge of beginning. Probably that's why we decide we're done. It's getting too scary. We are touching down onto something real. It is beyond the point when you think you are done that often something strong comes out.
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I can never find a movie I want to watch, even though I've got hundreds to choose from.
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I enjoy making films, but my heart is in the stage. Every night you have to be on. There's no second take.
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I have carried the burden of my dad's image since day one. They never see me as just another guy trying to make his career in the film industry. I am always 'Megastar' Chiranjeevi's son first, and Ram Charan only later.
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I believe in astrology as much as I do in genetics.
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Either communism must die or Christianity must die because it's actually a battle between Christ and anti-Christ.
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Khatami is a symptom and not the cause of change in Iran.
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We recognize that the whole world is kind of moving in this direction to digital distribution, but at the same time, there are still people who only watch movies in a movie theater, and there are some people who only watch certain programs on television or certain things on Netflix.
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I used to not watch what I ate. I would just kind of eat whatever.
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When a child is bruised physically or emotionally, parents often reward him with a treat.
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While the hippocampus itself doesn't store memories, it serves to triage our experiences based upon their survival significance.
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Years ago I went to the Wailing Wall in Jerusalem and did what all tourists there do: wrote some words on a scrap of paper that I tucked into a crevice in the wall. When I closed my eyes and touched my head to the warm stone, it came to me: "All language is prayer." This must be so. Who is it we are speaking to when we speak to anyone? To that person, and also past him or her to Out There. If there is language, it means there is the possibility of being heard, being met, being loved. And reaching out to be heard, met, or loved is a holy act. Language is holy.
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I like talking to priests, to Catholics. Everyone has their beliefs.
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In politics, sometimes you have to lie, or you make a promise that you cannot keep.
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You know, actors lie all the time. 'Can I ride on the horse? Are you kidding? Of course! I was born on a horse!'... It's the same with motorcycles.
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Two of the chief defenders of the faith in the Old Testament and in the New - Moses and Paul - were both well-versed in the language, the thinking, and the philosophy of their cultures.
