William Booth Quotes
Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry.
Quotes to Explore
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I went through a phase when I was 13 where I would only fall in love with people over the age of 19 or 20. I never had a real relationship with any of these people, but it was definitely the guy I wanted to hang out with and wanted to go on trips with. I would be like, 'But, Daddy, he's a musician!'.
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Justice is revenge.
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Well, I'm Canadian. True, north, strong, and free.
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The highest compliment that you can pay me is to say that I work hard every day, that I never dog it.
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One of the things I wonder is whether it's good that the whole free model makes a lot of people listen to more of your music. I'm wondering if it devalues it, it becomes disposable, because you can get it so easily.
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If you create great opportunities, people around the world will come support your dream.
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I make a lot of money, but I don't want to talk about that.
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I like to go hear jazz late-night up in Harlem.
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No citizen is a second class citizen in the city of Chicago. If my children are treated one way, every child is treated the same way.
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Since I became Secretary-General, five years ago, I have seen youth participate at the United Nations as never before.
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We are not anti-white. But we don't have time for the white man. The white man is on top already, the white man is the boss already... he has first-class citizenship already. So you are wasting your time talking to the white man. We are working on our own people.
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I don't think there are any men who are faithful to their wives.
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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Our meaning is to make our little planet Earth a better place to live, to stop wars, disarm nuclear missiles, to stop diseases, AIDS, plague, cancer and to stop pollution.
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I am a completely horizontal author. I can't think unless I'm lying down, either in bed or stretched on a couch and with a cigarette and coffee handy. I've got to be puffing and sipping.
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There is a kind of misconception that Asian-Americans are not as American as European-Americans.
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My Smiths, my Carters, the Cashes - everybody embraced me and held my arms up when I couldn't do it myself.
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You wouldn't expect a Christian character to be an Indie rocker guy.
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Twitter has been a godsend for travelling.
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I was missing out on a lot of things that my friends were doing, but in another way, they were missing things I was doing. It was kind of a trade-off I had to make.
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I love playing other people's work. I love acting.
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I don't want to tell you what to buy. I just want to help you think about why you're buying it.
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There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction.
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Most Christians would like to send their recruits to Bible college for five years. I would like to send them to hell for five minutes. That would do more than anything else to prepare them for a lifetime of compassionate ministry.
