Mike Yaconelli Quotes
I think that when you follow Christ, one of the things that happens when you start listening to His voice is that you really are alone.
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I do things right. No shortcuts.
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I'm all about telling stories. I like people to picture the music video in their head when they're just listening to the song.
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I really like collections of things. I love antique botanical prints with a bunch of different weeds and seeds.
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When you're listening to the radio, you're hearing dance beats, all the bells and whistles, and 'Say Something' makes you quiet and forces you to listen.
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I think I've paid my dues. I've really put in a lot of time on set.
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I like doing a bunch of different things, being all over the place.
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Some people have been listening to the Beatles their whole lives; I didn't discover them until I was 18 years old.
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There is a problem in Washington, and the problem is bigger than a continuing resolution. It is bigger than Obamacare. It is even bigger than the budget. The most fundamental problem and the frustration is that the men and women in Washington aren't listening.
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I love listening to songs that are from the heart and that touch the heart. So, love is the preferred theme for most of the songs that I sing.
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For me as a filmmaker, I do the projects I'm really excited about.
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The opposite of talking isn't listening. The opposite of talking is waiting.
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There are many, many nouns for the act of looking - a glance, a glimpse, a peep - but there's no noun for the act of listening. In general, we don't think primarily about sound. So I have a different perspective on the world; I can construct soundscapes that have an effect on people, but they don't know why. It's a sort of subterfuge.
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I really believe that carpet-bombing, bombing civilian populations, is a form of terror - it's state terror as opposed to vigilante terrorism.
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I'm doing it by enjoying what I do in the gym, really enjoying my foods.
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Gandalf saves the world and saves the soul of the world, really.
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I really did love hockey. It was one of my favorite things to do.
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I love to watch low-budget indie artsy films, but I do also love the big blockbuster things. I would love to do that one day, do a Marvel film. That would be really great.
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Yeah, I think speculation keeps things really interesting.
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I usually say what I really think. A great mistake nowadays. It makes one so liable to be misunderstood.
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The composer reveals the innermost nature of the world, and expresses the profoundest wisdom in a language that his reasoning faculty does not understand, just as a magnetic somnambulist gives information about things of which she has no conception when she is awake. Therefore in the composer, more than in any other artist, the man is entirely separate and distinct from the artist.
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If you send it halfway around the world before it is eaten, an organic food still may be 'good' for the consumer, but is it 'good' for the food system?
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I coach hockey players—some of them just happen to be girls. When I’m coaching youth hockey, I put the boys and girls together and they can’t tell the difference. They are just playing hockey.
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I think that when you follow Christ, one of the things that happens when you start listening to His voice is that you really are alone.
