Rick Warren Quotes
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My father's music has always inspired me in many ways... especially to be better at what I do.
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I'm not an atheist. How can you not believe in something that doesn't exist? That's way too convoluted for me.
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Temper never mellows with age, and a sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use.
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There's a monster outside my room, can I have a glass of water?
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I wasn't going to make a slick, glossy over-produced piece of entertainment because then I would be doing what the Capitol did. Then I'm actually putting on the Hunger Games and not making a movie of the 'Hunger Games.'
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Two cheers for Democracy; one because it admits variety, and two because it permits criticism.
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It's an unfortunate reality of life that toxins are constantly building up in our bodies.
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One of the more difficult tasks for me as president was to decide on the issue of confirming capital punishment awarded by courts... to my surprise... almost all cases which were pending had a social and economic bias.
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I don't really think about genre. I like to write books that I'd love to read myself.
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Let me be absolutely clear. Israel is a strong friend of Israel's. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under a McCain administration. It will be a strong friend of Israel's under an Obama administration. So that policy is not going to change.
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Who cares about great marks left behind? We have one life... just one. Our life. We have nothing else.
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I'm not looking for a 'yes' woman, but a strong person who knows when to be objective and when not to be.
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When my body feels good, I feel more energized and alive, and that's sexy. I'm taking care of this body God gave me.
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The function of leadership is to produce more leaders, not more followers.
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I don't worry about chemicals. There are enough chemicals entering my body through all the fizzy drinks I consume to worry if my lip balm is 100 per cent organic.
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For everything I do, I think about a 6-year-old girl and her mom that I saw at my concert last night. I think about what those two individuals would think if I were at a club last night. I never want to be arrested, and I never want to get a DUI, those are my moral values.
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I didn't really want to be the coach who wins but the coach who educates.
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Factually, the Temple Mount is the precise location of the Temple. It's the holiest place in the world for Jews. It's the third holiest place for Muslims. And we need to respect each others' rights, freedom of religion.
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I was a crazy Pee-wee Herman fan when I was in my early teens. Before he had the kids' TV show, he had a nightclub show in L.A., and I had gotten a VHS copy of it. It was a kids' show, but onstage in a bar, so it's sort of poking fun at the kids' show. And I was obsessed with that, and then 'Pee-wee's Big Adventure.'
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Some people find an interest in making money, and though they appear to be slaving, many actually enjoy every minute of their work.
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Who love too much, hate in the like extreme.
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Experience is how life catches up with us and teaches us to love and forgive each other.
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When you are willing to shine the light of love onto the parts that you are not proud of - onto the unaccepted parts, the unloved parts, the unwanted emotions, into all the darkened corners of your soul - love will suffuse them, embrace them, until you are left as nothing but love itself. Love arises when you expose everything.
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God is love. He didn't need us. But he wanted us.
