Rich Mullins (Richard Wayne Mullins) Quotes
I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to us is not AIDS, it's not gluttony, it's not cancer, it's not any of those things. It is the disease that comes about because we live in ignorance of the wealth of love that God has for us.
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You're never going to read 'The Wealth of Nations,' and you shouldn't, really. It's 900 pages.
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One can't write for all readers. A poet cannot write for people who don't like poetry.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I actually opened for Chris Rock at the Funny Bone one time.
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But is it not the fact that religion emanates from the nature, from the moral state of the individual? Is it not therefore true that unless the nature be completely exercised, the moral state harmonized, the religion cannot be healthy?
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Vladimir Putin's invasion of Ukraine is a gross violation of that nation's sovereignty and an affront to the international community.
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For one human being to love another; that is perhaps the most difficult of all our tasks, the ultimate, the last test and proof, the work for which all other work is but preparation.
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Someone once said about me that I talk to everyone the same, no matter what age they are. I don't see kids and adults. I see everyone the same.
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I think New York audiences are some of the brightest in the world, and certainly the most enthusiastic.
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We think that without cooperation with the Russians, we cannot achieve our goals.
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The past speaks to us in a thousand voices, warning and comforting, animating and stirring to action.
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I hope before I am getting too old and when my mind is still functioning, I can tell some better stories.
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To me, a poem that's in rhyme and meter is the difference between watching a film in full color and watching a film in black and white. Not that a few black and white films aren't wonderful. So are certain successful pieces of free verse.
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I think most people are aware of the garbage in the tabloids and don't give them a lot of credence.
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There is no gender to my music. There's no male or female voice, no trite lyrics or poetry. It's much more abstract, so it lives with you longer.
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A modest man is usually admired, if people ever hear of him.
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I'm from the north, so I'm anti-Thatcher.
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I feel increasingly like age is very irrelevant. Quite often, cynicism is confused with wisdom, and my scorn is confused with a knowing, which I don't have.
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You are who you are at this moment because of everything that's ever happened to you, everything that you carried forward for yourself.
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I was the singing boy in school.
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I do interviews because it's a chance to be myself. I sometimes wonder what I could have to say that would be of any interest. I don't have any great wisdom.
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I remember mentioning to friends back in 1938 that the world chess champion would be beaten by a computer in 50 years time. Today we know computers are not far from this goal.
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A lot of the geeks in Silicon Valley will tell you they no longer believe in the ability of policymakers in Washington to accomplish anything. They don't understand why people end up in politics; they would do much more good for the world if they worked at Google or Facebook.
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I think that of all the diseases in the world, the disease that all humankind suffers from, the disease that is most devastating to us is not AIDS, it's not gluttony, it's not cancer, it's not any of those things. It is the disease that comes about because we live in ignorance of the wealth of love that God has for us.
