Nicky Gumbel Quotes
Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and your faith stronger than your feelings
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After I'd produced about two dozen pen and ink drawings, one evening I decided that they needed poems to accompany them. I still have no idea where that notion came from, but it took me about two hours to produce verses for these creatures.
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To reach your goal authentically is probably, in the end, going to mean much more to you than having reached it in a false way.
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As football players, our bodies know exactly what time of year it is and what we need to be doing.
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I tramped. When I was on the freight trains, I wasn't looking for work. I was looking to go from place to place without paying any money.
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Society is one vast conspiracy for carving one into the kind of statue likes, and then placing it in the most convenient niche it has.
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A lot of people don't like me.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I have about 4 million Lego bricks. And then a few million in storage in case something comes up. I still pay for them. I buy my bricks just like everyone else. It's by far my biggest capital expense.
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If you happen to start a new country in the 1990s, you have the advantage of drafting new laws with the knowledge that the Internet is out there.
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Why do we take pleasure in gruesome death, neatly packaged as a puzzle to which we may find a satisfactory solution through clues - or if we are not clever enough, have it revealed by the all-powerful tale-teller at the end of the book? It is something to do with being reduced to, and comforted by, playing by the rules.
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The idea that somebody else is going to swoop down and play the fairy godmother role is pretty unlikely, so why not take care of yourself?
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I did Polyester, and I don't regret one minute of it. It was wonderful.
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It was in a mist the Tuatha de Danaan, the people of the gods of Dana, or as some called them, the Men of Dea, came through the air and the high air to Ireland.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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I used to experiment all the time with my hair color.
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The thing about Uggs is that they're so comfortable. Once you've worn them, you don't want to go back.
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'You're no help,' he told the lime. This was unfair. It was only a lime; there was nothing special about it at all. It was doing the best it could.
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Touring and performing is the best part of my job. I love it. I guess I like pop and rock. Really getting into a powerful stage performane, running around like crazy on the stage.
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Which is more difficult, to awaken one who sleeps or to awaken one who, awake, dreams that he is awake?
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I am lucky that whatever fear I have inside me, my desire to win is always stronger.
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I found that I was getting a warm reception for my message of freeing you from the income tax, releasing you from Social Security, ending the insane war on drugs, restoring gun rights, and reducing the federal government to just its constitutional functions.
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Songs are usually unfit for whistling - indeed, whistling (except to the person doing it) is unbearable.
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Let your dreams be bigger than your fears, your actions louder than your words, and your faith stronger than your feelings
