Chip Ingram Quotes
If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.
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I always come to conclusions very fast. Well, that is one way of thinking, and the other way would be that I lack the necessary perseverance to stick to one thing that really fits me. I don't know if it's a good thing or bad thing.
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My career is a black comedy of sorts. I spent a lot of time explaining myself to various different groups. But more and more, I'm finding that the desire to communicate, which all these audiences share, is a powerful thing.
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You need to have camaraderie in the clubhouse. Wherever you're working, be it a baseball team or at a business, you want to walk in there and say, 'Geez, it's great to be at work. Let's go get 'em,' as opposed to walking in there knowing there's going to be a commotion.
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Illegitimacy is something we should talk about in terms of not having it.
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Acting is exciting. It is different every time you do it.
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Are you really sure that a floor can't also be a ceiling?
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We can only restore faith in government if the state itself becomes an efficient, effective and transparent ally of the people. Bureaucratic inefficiencies, abuses of power and the misappropriation of public funds must end.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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I truly believe diversity is beauty.
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I'm no Leonardo DiCaprio.
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For me, soccer was a dance.
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I realize how myself and other people have started to almost fool ourselves that it's more important to us and more real than the real world, the offline world, and we value looking at our phone and pixels on a screen more than connecting eye to eye with a human being, which is terrifying to me because we're becoming robots.
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One of the satisfactions of a genius is his will-power and obstinacy.
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They put all this money into these huge films and then no one goes to see them. That sort of shows they're out of touch. Then everyone in town passes on my little movie and it does really well.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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You need to have extraordinary wisdom to be the forerunner.
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Stan is a rescue Chihuahua mix. He was the role model for Bob, the dog in 'Ivan.' The drawings in the book look precisely like Stan.
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Few Indians only had breech cloths, most being wrapped in buffalo robes, otherwise quite naked.
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He upbraided Macro, in no obscure and indirect terms, 'with forsaking the setting sun and turning to the rising'.
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The secret of realizing the greatest fruitfulness and the greatest enjoyment of existence is: to live dangerously! Build your cities on the slopes of Vesuvius! Send your ships out into uncharted seas! Live in conflict with your equals and with yourselves! Be robbers and ravagers as soon as you ca not be rulers and owners, you men of knowledge! The time will soon past when you could be content to live concealed int he woods like timid deer!
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In general, they do what you want, unless you want consistency.
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Opportunity rarely knocks on your door. Knock rather on opportunity's door if you ardently wish to enter.
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I'm glad it was me and not you, Mr. President.
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If you simplify your life, quit chasing the wind, and be quiet before Him, He'll show up.
