Rich Mullins (Richard Wayne Mullins) Quotes
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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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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 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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Something must be done,about vengeance, a badge and a gun.So rip the mic rip the state rip the system,I was born to rage against them.
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I believe that the abolition of private ownership of land and capital is a necessary step toward any world in which the nations are to live at peace with one another.
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The Internet is the best thing that could have happened to China.
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With every kid, there has just been a deepening of my humanity, because there's no more of a feet-on-the-ground moment than having a child.
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Simply as a writer of books I'm thrilled and proud that Seattle should have raised, on a public vote, sufficient money to build a central library, and moreover to rebuild every other library in the city: 28 of them.
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In this respect, to convert is to locate oneself in a particular temporality and duration. This duration is that of the inexhaustible future constituted by the infinite, the time of eternity, the time that inaugurates divine existence and its extension in the redemption of the body; thus its final point of completion—if there is one—is the parousia.
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That a majority of the Abolitionists in this place would patronize a free labor store, in preference to others, I do not doubt; but we do not muster money in Cincinnati.
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Everybody has a right to be defended, and every lawyer has a duty to defend people accused. And my office is to defend him, to discuss the accusation point by point, as I think this is a normal step in a democracy.
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Let people see your struggles and don't ever fake it.
