Carl Lentz Quotes
I made the fearful decision to head to Sydney, Australia, to study the Bible. My calling, my wife, Laura, my church, my passion - all were behind the scariest door of all time. Since that day, this remains exactly true: Fear never leaves. But the way we handle it can always change.
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The will is commendable though the ability may be wanting.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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It is less difficult to bear misfortunes than to remain uncorrupted by pleasure.
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I always have coffee and porridge for breakfast.
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All you wanna do in life is do what you do well. That's when you're happiest.
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I shot 'Girl' about three weeks after I finished 'The Magnificent Seven.'
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I know my fans want me on the screen. But I think hero-worship should not be allowed to corrupt the plot and narrative of a film.
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I think success happens when it's supposed to and when you can appreciate it. I am grateful that it didn't happen for me at 22 or 23. I would've been foolish enough to think that we're all entitled to it, instead of it being the divine blessing that it is.
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London audiences have this reputation for being a bit too cool for school.
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I love the crowds at festivals because they're so chilled out.
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As an actor, I still don't really know exactly what I am doing most of the time.
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We only need so much to survive, but this world we live in tells us we need more stuff to be happy. We're inundated with our televisions, the Internet and advertising that says in order to be happy you have to have these things. When you say, 'Gimme, gimme, gimme,' you will always be in short supply.
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I think I'm like a free spirit.
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I'm very tomboy, and I'm inspired by hip hop artists.
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I've laid my friends bare.
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My dream job was to work in an ice cream shop. Two weeks and five pounds later, I realized it wasn't for me. For many years, I had planned to be a corporate lawyer. As luck would have it, other than a summer internship, I didn't end up doing that either.
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It is not enough for me to ask question; I want to know how to answer the one question that seems to encompass everything I face: What am I here for?
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I actually think of being funny as an odd turn of mind, like a mild disability, some weird way of looking at the world that you can't get rid of.
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There was a period in my late 30s where work slowed down for me, as it does for a lot of women. You're no longer the young, cute thing anymore and maybe you're not quite old enough to play (what others think of) in terms of women in charge.
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So when you put the kick in and the other runners go past you, it's game over!
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Barbarism is needed every four or five hundred years to bring the world back to life. Otherwise it would die of civilization.
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Our democratic societies are in danger. In allowing ourselves to be infiltrated by fear, to be blinded by the passion of identity, we are entertaining the most serious illusions about our freedom.
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I made the fearful decision to head to Sydney, Australia, to study the Bible. My calling, my wife, Laura, my church, my passion - all were behind the scariest door of all time. Since that day, this remains exactly true: Fear never leaves. But the way we handle it can always change.
