Dallas Willard Quotes
I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'
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Playing the good guy is tough because you know as well as I do, in real life, you have to watch your P's and Q's and conduct yourself in a respectable manner if you expect to have friends.
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Saint Joseph's still is among the smaller-enrollment institutions with a big-time basketball program. The Jesuits still offer the same high-quality education. St. Joe's students and alumni are as supportive as ever, and their spirit is unquenchable.
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I can improve it a little bit. But it's my head, it's the way I am. So at the end of the day, I will be who I am and I will win how much I can win.
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The Beduin could not look for God within him: he was too sure that he was within God.
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My brothers and I love playing outside and climbing trees. We really love sports, too - I think football's probably my favorite.
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I guess I'm way too kind and generous, and a saint - if you can believe that!
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I used to hate reading my old work, but now I'm rather fond of it. I quite like going through it in the hope of making it better.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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I'm no good with chords. I'm horrible with chords.
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I never had crushes on anybody when I was younger; I really didn't.
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I don't find any real rivalries with crime and thriller writers anyway. That might sound a little Pollyanna, but for the most part the writers I compete with, if you want to use that word, it's a pretty friendly rivalry. I think we all realise that the boat rises and sinks together.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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A national political campaign is better than the best circus ever heard of, with a mass baptism and a couple of hangings thrown in.
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I was told that, when 'Betrayal' was being produced by one of the provincial companies in England, the two actors playing those roles actually went into a pub one day and played that scene as if it were really happening to them. The people around them became very uncomfortable.
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The gamble of literature is that I make the best work I can; the most truthful, the most representative of how I see things. I try and do that, and then I put it out there and say to you, 'What do you think?' I hope that you think well of it, obviously.
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That was the first major social sciences conference at which social scientists from all cultures wanted to reach a consensus on whether we can continue to pursue a national course in the social sciences or whether we need a cosmopolitan path that also connects us in a new way.
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It ain't no sin if you crack a few laws now and then, just so long as you don't break any.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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A fine world in which man reproaches woman with fulfilling his heart's desire!
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And a thimble's worth of milky moonCan touch hearts larger than a thimble.
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I remember auditioning for record labels and having them tell me, 'Well, the country-radio demographic is the thirty-five-year-old female housewife. Give us a song that relates to the thirty-five-year-old female, and we'll talk.'
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Because we believe that our ethnic group, our society, our political party, our God, is better than your God, we kill each other.
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I believe that every human being is sufficiently depraved that when we get to Heaven, no one will be able to say, 'I merited this.'
