Dallas Willard Quotes
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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You can't get AIDS from a hug or a handshake or a meal with a friend.
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In times of need, God can come to you in a myriad of disguises.
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When you're climbing at high altitudes, life can get pretty miserable.
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Even if you throw your hair up in a quick topknot or ponytail, you can add instant polish by wearing a headband or bejeweled barrette.
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You can always make peace with an F-16 in your pocket.
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Read over your compositions, and when you meet a passage which you think is particularly fine, strike it out.
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Thinking fragments reality - it cuts it up into conceptual bits and pieces.
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Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.
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That's the great thing about entering a convent: There are things that you simply can't do, so you don't have to worry about them.
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The third time you say a thing it sounds like a lie.
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The larger truth, the universal truth that you can give in a novel, is far greater than what you can give through journalism.
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The beautiful thing about learning is nobody can take it away from you.
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You know in the West they support realistic forces.
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No one becomes an expert in a new career overnight, even if you are coming from another career where you were established and experienced.
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Listen, when somebody says, 'I take the fifth,' well, you know, they did something, OK? Why else would they take the fifth?
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If you're going to write thrillers, you have to make a decision if you are going to be realistic or go off and over.
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You gotta be really careful what you bite off. Don't bite off more than you can chew. It's a dangerous world.
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The lies we live will always be confessed in the stories that we tell.
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A play is much easier to maintain your personal life with because if you're rehearsing, you're working like from 11 to 6 or 11 to 5 and you get to have your whole morning and your whole evening. When you're doing the play, you have all day.
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You've always got to work with the best if you can, and of course, the best are the best because they're different. They expect certain standards, and they're usually very difficult people to work with.
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If you think about making a city that is much more porous, many accessible spaces, that is a political position, because you don't fortify, you open it up so that many people can use it.
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I like to consider myself a relatively spiritual person, and I just do my thing. I'm very focused on what I do professionally, and I'm very focused on my family, and I don't really get too stressed out about what people say or what other people think.
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Reality is what you can count on.
