Tony Evans Quotes
One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.
Quotes to Explore
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A first date should be elegant. In comfortable surroundings. A place with excellent food, where you can talk easily and get to know each other.
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We should honor Mother Earth with gratitude; otherwise our spirituality may become hypocritical.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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Comic book readers tend to be pretty secular and anti-authoritarian; nothing is above satire in their eyes.
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To think that guys who grew up in the '60s would make a miniseries supporting the idea that Oswald acted alone is something I certainly wouldn't have predicted. But time and evidence can change the way we view things.
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The Lord discovered to me a sense of my unbelief that, though late, I should remember my transgressions and that I should be converted with my whole heart to the Lord my God.
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After a 15-year career in television news, sometimes spent biting my tongue in the name of objectivity and balance, I retired to raise our two small children.
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I think technology really increased human ability. But technology cannot produce compassion.
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My husband is in charge of all phone, email and texting duties at home. He even has to turn on the TV and air conditioning because I'm so hopeless with technology.
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If you want to get along, go along.
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When I was in college, I had only one ambition that one day I would like to be a director.
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I am guilty of asking the Senate for pork and proud of the Senate for giving it to me.
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It's fantastic to strive towards a nice life where you eat nice organic food and your children go to a nice school and you can afford nice clothes and nice perfume and the hypoallergenic make-up. But there's never a day goes by, and I mean this from the bottom of my heart, that I don't think about where I'm from.
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The thing about Pablo is that he wasn't happy with what he had - just being the sixth richest man in the world. He wanted to be loved. He wanted to be accepted. He wanted to be President of Colombia; he wanted his kids to go to the same school as the Colombian elite. But he wouldn't be accepted by the elite.
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On 'Glee,' the director can be like, 'Hey, your face is looking a little too intense here.' And they can show me the screen, and I can be like, 'I know exactly what to do here.'
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Parvesh Cheena is a real treat for the ladies.
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Our elite believe in a new trinity of equality, democracy and diversity. Indeed, after the Cold War, we declared the spread of democracy worldwide to be our historic mission and national goal.
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I was responsible to no one, I had no need mumble excuses or lies. I would become someone else and my metamorphosis would be so complete that no one I’d met over the past fifteen years would be able to recognize me. (116)
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Men are virtuous because the women are; women are virtuous from necessity.
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I was on stage with Cyndi Lauper, and my trousers split. It seemed like she was going to sing for ever.
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Mockery is an important social tool for squelching stupidity. I’ve never seen anyone change his mind because of the power of a superior argument or the acquisition of new facts. But I’ve seen plenty of people change behavior to avoid being mocked.
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It's a juggernaut, yeah... but I'm not phased by making movies.
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Doing as much as you can for as long as you can - that's the motto.
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One of the major failures of the church is not a focus on building disciples but a focus on building members.
