Carl Lentz Quotes
Who you are is not defined by what you do, but it is defined according to who Jesus is to you
Quotes to Explore
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Interviews make me so nervous - I can't get a sentence out of my mouth.
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At one time or another, we have all faced the temptation to disconnect by giving someone the silent treatment. After being married to Joel for more than twenty-one years, I have learned that is not the best way to handle a disagreement.
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Having spent a number of my younger years with trade-union parents attending NUT annual conferences, I feel comfortable with an agenda in my hand and a procedural format for debate.
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In the Middle Ages and beyond, the target was the Court Jew who had the ear of the ruler; during the Inquisition it was the Spanish Jews who thrived after their conversion to Christianity.
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Work as though you would live forever, and live as though you would die today. Go another mile!
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The problem is not getting rid of fear, but using it properly.
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I've always been fascinated by how the past impacts the present. For the first half of my career as a novelist, I wrote psychological suspense mysteries. I wanted to be a therapist but was told that while I was a fine diagnostician, I would be a terrible therapist because I wanted to solve everyone's problems.
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People don't want to pay 8 or 9 dollars to go see a problem that they have in their life, on screen. They pay to get away from that. That's why they watch soap operas.
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I'm interested in morality and mortality, and 'Deadpool' kind of has all of these themes.
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Liars do look you in the eye. They do not always stutter, stammer, blush or fidget.
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One of the first pieces of advice I was ever given, on my first job was, 'You should always buy something to treat yourself to say, 'Well done for getting the job!'
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The President has been a big proponent of the public option since the campaign.
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Growing up, I was always the small guy.
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The problem with the focus on speculators, as was demonstrated during the financial crisis, is that it tends to divert attention from the real villains. During the financial crisis, the villains were the actions of the banks, not the speculators betting on bank share prices.
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It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.
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I've done a lot of roles where I'm the hero saving the planet.
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I trust my hand. If I go into a space with a roll of paper, I can make a work, some kind of work, and feel pretty satisfied.
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Every season I try to top myself, and push it a little further.
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You don't drown by falling into water. You only drown if you stay there.
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Life stands before me like an eternal spring with new and brilliant clothes.
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One of my big goals as a human being is to continue to write what's really happening to me, even if it's a tough pill to swallow for people around me... I do fear that if I ever were to have someone in my life who mattered, I would second-guess every one of my lyrics.
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M: Is he smart I: She yes very smart sees right through me M: In my day we valued blindness rather more.
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In every relationship, the work is never just in the positive actions we do for each other, but in the follow up.
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Who you are is not defined by what you do, but it is defined according to who Jesus is to you
