Rich Mullins (Richard Wayne Mullins) Quotes
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The mind is a superb instrument if used rightly. Used wrongly, however, it becomes very destructive. To put it more accurately... you usually don't use it at all. It uses you.
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I consider myself a writer who happens to write about history, rather than a historian. I was an English major in college. What I've learned about history is in the field, so to speak. Going into the archives and working with it directly.
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My dad's a Jew, and my mom's a WASP, so that should pretty much say it all. It was a comically dysfunctional family.
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I love babies. I love being pregnant and I loved giving birth.
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I love comedy because I'm naturally a very silly person.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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For some reason, I like to put myself in situations where I don't even know how I ended up there. I never want to be complacent or comfortable in a role.
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The Star Trek computer doesn't seem that interesting. They ask it random questions, it thinks for a while. I think we can do better than that.
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The greatest part of the job was... that was for nine years it was a pleasure to go to work.
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I can't just react on the strength of an email and three pages of synopsis, and say I'm going to take off for three months of my life.
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It's interesting when you're part of a group - the Jews, to be exact - that the world has had such problems with.
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The best ally you can have in breaking up a street fight is a grandmother.
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I feel like art has been at the center of change since the beginning of time.
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My dream was to have a garage where I could put some of the coolest cars I've ever seen throughout my life.
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Listen, my day job is also Chief Creative Officer for Marvel, and it's a very painful job because we publish a lot of books, and there are things I see where I can punch people out. Therefore, we have some new people now, and the kids are going to read our books.
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Using social media can often be the fastest and easiest way to connect with online influencers because they are already established platforms for connecting with like-minded individuals.
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My parents were atheists, strong atheists. I never got the answer 'God.'
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I think all human beings are at least a little bit Dr. Jeckyl and Mr. Hyde, and many of us are downright quadrophenic.
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Persistence in prayer for someone whom we don't like, however much it goes against the grain to begin with, brings about a remarkable change in attitude.
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Free thought means fearless thought. It is not deterred by legal penalties, nor by spiritual consequences. Dissent from the Bible does not alarm the true investigator, who takes truth for authority not authority for truth. The thinker who is really free, is independent; he is under no dread; he yields to no menace; he is not dismayed by law, nor custom, nor pulpits, nor society-whose opinion appals so many. He who has the manly passion of free thought, has no fear of anything, save the fear of error.
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We are not as strong as we think we are
