Charles H. Kraft Quotes
Converting cannot leave certain American values unchanged. For although God is willing to start where Americans are, he is not content if we continue to be crippled by simply continuing in our commitment to the values in which we have been trained.
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The trade magazine and all was banned in my house. The first time I read a film magazine was when I was 18.
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I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
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Most mutations involve typos: Something bumps a cell's elbow as it's copying DNA, and the wrong letter appears in a triplet - CAG becomes CCG.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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Could you say 'senator' instead of 'ma'am? It's just a thing. I worked so hard to get that title. I'd appreciate it.
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I think, looking back, there was a lot of fear of success in me. When you are successful, you have to keep it up... it requires you to be responsible, and I had been pretty irresponsible.
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It was quite a shot in the head to do the album and then have it shot down by nonmusical idiots.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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You can tell when people think they're a little bit special, and it's quite fun to laugh at them, and I think it's good to laugh at them, because then you can deflate their egos a bit.
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In 70s America, protest used to be very effective, but in subsequent decades municipalities have sneakily created a web of 'overpermiticisation' - requirements that were designed to stifle freedom of assembly and the right to petition government for redress of grievances, both of which are part of our first amendment.
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Politicians make phony promises all the time that they can't deliver.
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
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I always wanted to play some kind of instrument - piano, saxophone, whatever. I took it up for a while, then forgot about it because I didn't have the time.
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That old bald cheater, Time.
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Is it possible to live in this world without the operation of will?
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Politics, n. A strife of interests masquerading as a contest of principles. The conduct of public affairs for private advantage.
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I'm not afraid of storms, for I'm learning how to sail my ship.
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There is a bearing which comes from having a little bit of something withheld. In acting classes, they always say don't reveal 100 percent: it's much more interesting.
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'One Million Bullets' is my baby.
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I wanted to talk about my life. There is so much. I was 18 when I made the record, and I had a lot to say.
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As I continue to develop my relationship with Him, I have discovered that God is a nice guy.
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It's dangerous to assume that because a man is drawn to holiness in his study that he is thereby a holy man. I am sure that the reason that I have a deep hunger to learn of the holiness of God is precisely because I am not holy.
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Converting cannot leave certain American values unchanged. For although God is willing to start where Americans are, he is not content if we continue to be crippled by simply continuing in our commitment to the values in which we have been trained.
