Rich Mullins (Richard Wayne Mullins) Quotes
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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I hate ugliness. You know I'm allergic to ugliness.
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If writers, like comedians or singers, could only hear themselves bombing as they worked, it's likely that certain books would be cut short after the first few leaden sentences.
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Complete abstinence is easier than perfect moderation.
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If major companies sourcing in developing countries care only about price and quality, local suppliers will be lured to cut corners on environmental standards to win contracts.
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I procrastinate all morning. That's when I get my office work done and answer e-mails and see what's on the Internet and do laundry.
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My fault, my failure, is not in the passions I have, but in my lack of control of them.
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You learn a lot about love before you ever get there. You learn at least as much about love from books as you do from watching your parents.
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Equality for women is progress for all.
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Our house was awash in books, and my mother doled out her favorites like they were special treats - which they were.
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I know enough about European politics to know you've got a lot of crazy people who make their way onto the ballot.
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I've been engaged a couple times.
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If I do something, it's always 90% obvious and 10% unknown.
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I like surprising my audiences, and it's compulsory to have fun and be silly; I never take myself quite too seriously.
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I fear that the rising personal bankruptcies and repossessions are the first signs of bigger problems to come and personal debt - Gordon Brown's legacy to millions of Britain's families - will hang like a millstone around the neck of the British people for years to come.
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I don't think I can sell to our voters in our district that there's nothing to cut in the federal budget. Nobody, I think, sees that or would agree with that.
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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Gay nightclubs offer better dance music.
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Everyone is trying to get attention but intelligent persons get theirs by doing something worthwhile, beneficial to himself and the community.
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Well it seems to me, that all real communities grow out of a shared confrontation with survival. Communities are not produced by sentiment or mere goodwill. They grow out of a shared struggle. Our situation in the desert is an incubator for community.
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Marvel is really about the stories of Peter Parker and Bruce Banner or Jessica Jones. These are - I'm hesitant to say the word, but - real people with real problems whose power comes, to use the great expression, with great responsibility.
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Never treat your audience as customers, always as partners.
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Interestingly, however, we found that participants consistently underestimated their intake of the candies on their desks yet overestimated how much they ate when the candies were farther away.
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Let people see your struggles and don't ever fake it.
