Rich Mullins (Richard Wayne Mullins) Quotes
A lot of people are sitting around waiting for God to tell them what to do. I think God is saying 'Do what you want!' If he wants me to express His love, I need to find a way to do it.
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I don't like the word 'experiment' in the context of art in general. It implies something immature, unfinished, something entertaining for a moment before it becomes irrelevant.
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In our culture, the shame about accidental pregnancy is inextricable from the shame about having had sex. That disapproval of sex is one reason our record with contraception is so poor. If you're not supposed to be sexual, you don't plan for sex. You cross your fingers and hope for the best.
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As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start.
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I was a pop-music junkie. My parents were into Frank Sinatra and Doris Day. They weren't too excited when I had Aretha or the Stones pumping.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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Women would be disproportionately affected by the privatization of social security. It is one of the most important safety nets for American women in old age, or in times of disability, to insure financial income for their families.
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The biggest killer of people is food.
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The Alanis Morissette tour, everybody thinks that was all sitting around, lighting candles and talking intelligently about synergy and big words. That band was so gnarly. We were such scumbags. Alanis had no idea. We were like Van Halen.
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I felt like I had two fathers. I had my real father and the father in my head.
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Israel reoccupied the cities of the West Bank by a unilateral action, and reestablished the civil and military occupation by a unilateral action, and it is the one that determines whether or not a Palestinian citizen has the right to reside in any part of the Palestinian Territory.
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Spend enough time around success and failure, and you learn a reverence for possibility.
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When I go home, I play with my baby dolls and strollers and diaper bags, and play with my sisters.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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I like Louis C.K., Chris Rock. Old schools like Richard Pryor and Eddie Murphy.
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Country fans and country listeners deserve to have something better... a song that really has something to say, something that makes you feel something.
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I've decided I am going to start loving my backside because I don't know anyone who does that.
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I have an obsession with mortality. I saw a friend die when I was 18, and I can't get over it.
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In a novel, I think you have a contract with the reader to make the character representative - of a moment in history, a social class... for instance, I wanted to make the boy in 'A Boy's Own Story' more like other gay men of my generation in their youth and not like me.
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There are probably more internet hate sites about me than Charles Manson.
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I'm happy to say that I'm a lesbian in the world. I know there are people who don't want to be called women comedians, but I think it gives a path to the fact that we live in extremely patriarchal times.
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Very often it's really inconvenient - who you fall in love with. You can't really control it.
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Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's places. We do not need magic to change the world, we carry all the power we need inside ourselves already: we have the power to imagine better.
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A lot of people are sitting around waiting for God to tell them what to do. I think God is saying 'Do what you want!' If he wants me to express His love, I need to find a way to do it.
