Rich Mullins (Richard Wayne Mullins) Quotes
God spoke to Balaam through his ass. I believe God still speaks through asses today. So if God should choose to speak through you, you needn't think too highly of yourself.
Quotes to Explore
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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To be is to do.
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You just have to enjoy what you're doing. You just never know how people are going to receive it.
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I often reread books I have written.
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I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.
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Runners exalt the marathon as a public test of private will, when months or years of solitary training, early mornings, lost weekends, rain and pain mature into triumph or surrender. That's one reason the race-day crowds matter, the friends who come to cheer and stomp and flap their signs and push the runners on.
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When I needed to think or was really upset, generally I climbed a tree.
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The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.
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Social Security is fundamentally strong.
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Magic is crazy. He is that crazy wild guy on the basketball court that is very intense and very serious. He is the guy who lives and eats and breathes basketball. Magic is a guy who would stand for nothing but winning and really prepared himself as well as he prepared his team. Earvin is the complete opposite.
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On the sets, Ali Zafar was extremely entertaining... he would just start singing out of the blue. It was just great!
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People can be so neglectful of each other and of their own heritage - then death intrudes. Conversations we wish that we'd had earlier are had too late.
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We worked lightly even in the heaviest parts.
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I would never say I will stay in electronic music for the rest of my life. I will always do whatever I feel like at that moment.
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People in great institutions are occasionally credulous.
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When I talk about the end of apartheid, I prefer not to claim the honor that I have ended it.
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On the one hand, I am a businesswoman - on the other, a wife and a mother. Like many women, I have had to distribute time and attention between business and family. It is not at all easy to find that balance.
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I don't feel embarrassed by any of the music that I like. I think it's all genuinely clever, good music.
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It's no accident that my first novel was called Americana. This was a private declaration of independence, a statement of my intention to use the whole picture, the whole culture.
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It doesn't take a language long to disappear once the spirit to continue with it leaves its community. In fact, the speed of the decline has been one of the main findings of recent linguistic research.
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I try not to make snap judgments. I never, ever make conclusions about products I've never tried.
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Now, we believe that the majority of teachers in America know our system must be reformed, to put students first so that America can compete, that teachers don't teach to become rich or famous. They teach because they love children.
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'Captain America' I love, and that would be great, but c'mon, a Frenchman doing 'Captain America?' They would burn my passport.
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God spoke to Balaam through his ass. I believe God still speaks through asses today. So if God should choose to speak through you, you needn't think too highly of yourself.
