Miroslav Volf Quotes

I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.

Miroslav Volf

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• Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.

  

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• For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.

  

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• Youth is really in your attitude, not in what you look like.

  

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• Over the years I have tried to develop something which is technically assured.

  

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• If you don't want to be killed by ISIS, don't go to Syria. If you don't want to be killed by a Mexican, there's nothing I can tell you.

  

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• The root of a nation's misfortunes has to be sought in the moral failings of the government.

  

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• I have met so many of my idols - like Ray Charles, Brian Setzer - all these cats that are legendary musicians. If they had said to me, 'Hey man, I'm busy,' it would have crushed my soul.

  

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• The stuff coming out of Silicon Valley is dorky. Like, it's not very sexy.

  

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• I think we've broken story after story that the rest of the media refused to break even when they had the story because they were scared of the story, or they just didn't think it was appropriate.

  

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• I started listening to The-Dream a lot. That's when I really got into writing songs. I like the way he put lyrics and makes his songs. So I was like, 'All right,' and I just started writing. That's when I started wanting to be a songwriter.

  

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• I think the big lesson I've learned is that it's very hard to write satire in America because almost immediately, whatever you've thought of turns out to come true, or sometimes it already was true.

  

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• I grew up in a very large family in a very small house. I never slept alone until after I was married.

  

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• I've always been a risk taker. Growing up, I had a lot of freedom and room to roam and do what I wanted, and I think that's a huge part of my game.

  

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• You have to eat right. That does not mean that I don't drink Cuban coffee. That does not mean that I do not have two cigarettes a day - that's what I'm down to. I drink wine - you know, I'm normal. But I do eat well.

  

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• Thompson is a typical American: wide feet, good jab; he'll try to have a fight.

  

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• Why should you shake hands with somebody who's keeping Americans in prison? I mean, what's the point? Neville Chamberlain shook hands with Hitler.

  

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• The real crazies who are looking for a messiah... after an hour or so they realise I'm not it and go off and look somewhere else.

  

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• I figure anytime you put an adjective before 'writer,' it's a way of dismissing the writer.

  

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• I should not be a Christian but for the miracles.

  

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• The entire banking movement, at all crucial stages, was centralized in the hands of a few men who for years were linked, ideologically and personally, with one another.

  

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• I don't think we need to agree with anyone in order to love the person. The command for Christians to love the other person, to be benevolent and beneficent toward them, is independent of what the other believes.

  

  Miroslav Volf
  • Thinking
  • Christian
  • Command