Rick Warren Quotes
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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All of my friends, I consider childhood friends because we met when I was probably 13, and I'm still friends with them today. It's really nice that I have that core group.
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I got into beards right in the middle of the hipster boom.
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I had been keeping an off eye on the advertising field, thinking I might become an idea man and a copywriter.
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Things were easier for the old novelists who saw people all of a piece. Speaking generally, their heroes were good through and through, their villains wholly bad.
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But you have to be creative on how you sell yourself and market yourself.
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I hate how late we have our Olympic Trials, always have.
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It's up to the audience. It always has been.
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Horrors, I believe, should be original - the use of common myths and legends being a weakening influence.
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There is no question at all that Manson was sending Tex, Sadie, Katie, and Linda out on his mission of murder.
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A lot of American playwrights seem to have a career as a playwright. I don't consider it a career at all.
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If you're going to take a jab at someone, you should at least have a bit more of a personal relationship with them. I feel like you can be funny and clever, as opposed to just outright vile.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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The go-to reflex all over Hollywood is still likeability. I've always had a problem with it because I think I have a weird barometer in the sense that some of the characters I've cared about the most in movies are characters that are often thought of as despicable.
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Conrad Black is a picture of a man hugely enjoying himself.
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The true facts are not always obvious. They often have to be looked for.
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Marriage is something I'd recommend everyone to try, if you find the right person, of course.
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I've been a Madden guy since I was little.
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Becoming an actor wasn’t a choice – it was something I was forced into. At 3, you can’t make those choices... I supported my family, and if I got fired or missed an audition, I’d be punished as if I’d messed up in school. I was starved, because they wanted to keep my weight at a certain place; my hair was bleached – that was my life. I wasn’t allowed to play with kids on my block or ride a bike or play ball, in case I got a scratch – I wasn’t even allowed to be bar mitzvahed because I couldn’t attend enough lessons.
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The key to teaching anything is to remember what it was like not to understand that thing. That's a very hard thing to do. Every time you come to understand something you didn't understand before, you are transformed. You become a different person from who you were before. The key to teaching someone else to understand that same thing is to remember your former, untransformed self. If you can do that, I think you can teach anything, even physics.
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Humility is important.
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I've got a coin with my face on it. It is really bizarre.
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Chorus of Furies: We claim to be just and upright. No wrath from us will come stealthily to the one who holds out clean hands, and he will go through life unharmed; but whoever sins, as this man has, and hides his blood-stained hands, as avengers of bloodshed we appear against him to the end, presenting ourselves as upright witnesses for the dead.
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Humility is not thinking less of yourself, it's thinking of yourself less.
