A. C. Dixon (Amzi Clarence Dixon) Quotes
Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
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In the case of my book, I don't think it's really the coming-out gay novel that everyone really needed, even though it was received as such. The boy is too creepy, he betrays his teacher, the only adult man with whom he's enjoyed a sexual experience, etc.
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I would be very happy doing movies. I love to work and I think I'm a little different.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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From the RBI side, the fake Indian currency note is an important issue that needed to be addressed. The other collateral benefits from this, in terms of greater accountability, better public finance, more transparency, are, by definition, areas that take time to fully play out.
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I was a bit odd. I read books and wanted to draw and go to art school.
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If you want your children to bring original ideas into the world, you need to let them pursue their passions, not yours.
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Hebrew is the language I use to thank the Creator and, also, to swear on the road.
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To stimulate wildly weak and untrained minds is to play with mighty fires.
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Forget not, O Lord, that I am one of those whom Thou hast created, and with Thine own blood hast redeemed. I repent me of my sins: I will strive to amend my ways.
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At Nike, designers both created and communicated the brand, transforming a company that made shoes into a purveyor of athletic heroism.
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If you only write when the muse strikes, you won't get anything done. You have to write consistently, when your schedule says you should. And that's hard.
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Horseracing already has the highest mortality rate of any sport in the world per capita to the people who do it. If you crash in Nascar you still have a roll bar, and a cage, and a lot of protection. It's built to crash, but if you fall off a racehorse we all know what can happen, so it's tremendously dangerous.
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It was never important for a wedding to be about anything other than me and my partner. A big celebration was never my cup of tea.
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I was trying to be Mary Tyler Moore. I loved her in 'The Dick Van Dyke Show.'
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It kind of varies according to what I'm doing and what my situation is, but, most of the time, I have no idea what I'm doing until the day of.
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We know what's in our Cheerios and in our retirement accounts because the law requires disclosure.
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I don't have a specific type of role that I aspire to play or aspire to act. I really like a challenge and I really like doing things that are different because if I had to do the same thing all the time, then I don't think I would be an actor.
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Christians should be ready for a change because Jesus was the greatest changer in history.
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ISIS is on the offense, with the ability to attack at will, anyplace, anytime.
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While I've written in the POV (point of view) of adolescent characters before... I never have had to create novels in which those characters not only drive the plot, but also are instrumental in resolving whatever issue the plot deals with.
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Whoever lives for poetry must read everything. How often has the light of a new idea sprung for me from a simple brochure! When one allows himself to be animated by new images, he discovers iridescence in the images of old books. Poetic ages unite in a living memory. The new age awakens the old. The old age comes to live again in the new. Poetry is never as unified as when it diversifies.
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To make the reader afraid, I had to be afraid.
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Training of the mind and body leads to awareness of the soul
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Men have presented their plans and philosophies for the remedying of earth's ills, but Jesus stands alone in presenting not a system, but His own personality as capable of supplying the needs of the soul.
