Jay DeMarcus Quotes
I am living proof - and I know this for a fact - that you can find encouragement and strength through the message that's in Christian music, because I've lived it.
Quotes to Explore
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Because when you feel that you have arrived, you are dead.
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Control of a company does not carry with it the ability to control the price of its stock.
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I call tennis the McDonald's of sport - you go in, they make a quick buck out of you, and you're out.
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I realized that equipment really had little to do with why I sound like the way I sound.
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In fiction, there happens to be a long history of creative engagement with marginality, with the very human components of society that others don't want to think about, from writers such as Dostoyevsky, Baudelaire, and Rimbaud to Genet and Sarrazin and right on up to Norman Mailer.
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He who is too busy doing good finds no time to be good.
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I don't care if you're a man, if you're a player: If God sends you that one and your heart is in it, you'll work it out.
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Heartbreak taught me that you can rise from the ashes and get over .
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You could own coins but you couldn't have bars of gold. We were on the gold standard. I think it was Nixon who took us off the gold standard.
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Stories don’t end with the writers, however many started the race.
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Measures of self-precept must be tailored to the domain of psychological functioning being explored.
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Progress does not compel us to settle centuries-long debates about the role of government for all time, but it does require us to act in our time.
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I would love to blog daily but I have not been making time for it because my internet is very slow. Everyone should make time for writing.
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The camera, you know, will never capture you. Photography, in my experience, has the miraculous power of transferring wine into water.
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Sixth grade was a big time, in my childhood, of hoops and friendship, and coming up with funny things.
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People do lose weight on an Atkins diet. The reason they lose weight is because of calorie reduction. If a person's caloric intake has not fallen, if they are really shoveling in the steak, they don't lose weight.
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The mind is the slayer of the real, let the disciples slay the slayer.
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I think that role model is kind of a weird thing because obviously you are, but I try to make good choices and good decisions for myself for me to have a good life. If that inspires someone else, that is great, but I think you should do good for yourself and your own happiness.
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Mexico doesn't deserve what has happened to us. A democratic change is urgent, a change that will permit us to stop being a loser country.
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Given our abundance, the burden of proof should always be on keeping, not giving. Why would you not give? We err by beginning with the assumption that we should keep or spend the money God entrusts to us. Giving should be the default choice. Unless there is a compelling reason to spend it or keep it, we should give it.
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Always think of what is useful and not what is beautiful. Beauty will come of its own accord.
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I am living proof - and I know this for a fact - that you can find encouragement and strength through the message that's in Christian music, because I've lived it.
