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.
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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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Then, all censure of a man's self is oblique praise.
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One of the most durable and destructive legacies of discrimination is the way we've internalized a sense of limitation; how so many in our community have come to expect so little from the world and from themselves.
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Readers, on the other hand, have at least 7.5 books going all the time. Actually, the number of books a reader takes on is usually directly related to the number of bathrooms he has in his home and office. I am working on a survey that will show that, over a lifetime, readers are in bathrooms seven years and three months longer than nonreaders.
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One of the most meditative times of my day is when I'm cooking.
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People get successful and they start saying, 'Well of course I am! I was chosen! I'm special!' No, you're not.
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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.
