Wayne Jacobsen Quotes

The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score.

Wayne Jacobsen

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• I went to high school in Los Angeles, and I grew up riding horses, so that was kind of my life. I always wanted to act.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Life
  • Up
  • School

• I'm all over the place, and I consider myself a bit of a scrounger: 'What will I do next, so I'm not broke?'

  

  Laura Kightlinger
  • Myself
  • Place
  • Broke

• We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.

  

  Earl Warren
  • Education
  • Place
  • Equal

• English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.

  

  Yaya Toure
  • Space
  • Football
  • English

• Just now, Christianity is in the ascendant. Buddhism and Taoism are decadent; their influence cannot long hold its own. Buddhism has long since passed its meridian; Taoism has only demons, not gods.

  

  Zhang Zhidong
  • Long
  • Influence
  • Demons

• 'Moonlight' is a project that resonated with me more than anything else. I wouldn't have done 'Luke Cage' if they hadn't made time for 'Moonlight.'

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Time
  • Done
  • Me

• Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

  

  Talcott Parsons
  • God
  • Sometimes
  • Progress

• If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.

  

  J. Paul Getty
  • Business
  • Problem
  • Bank

• When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.

  

  Fat Joe
  • Done
  • Want
  • Career

• Dr. Einstein was not successful in school, but he found something in the air from his own imagination and his own brain power, and look what he did.

  

  Eartha Kitt
  • School
  • Power
  • Imagination

• It's always good to walk in a room and know everybody kind of looks up to you because I guess I've earned it.

  

  Ace Frehley Kiss
  • Up
  • Good
  • Know

• People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.

  

  Valerie Bertinelli
  • People
  • Life
  • Inspired

• My favorite film of all time is 'Raising Arizona.' I watched it again as soon as it was over. I had it on VHS, rented it, and I watched it and said, 'I want to watch that again, right now.' I think I did the same with something like 'Goodfellas,' which is a completely different genre.

  

  Edgar Wright
  • Time
  • Different
  • Think

• Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.

  

  Yoko Ono
  • People
  • Think
  • Expression

• I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Against
  • Boycotts

• Quentin Tarantino was fantastic. I mean, he can be almost unbearable as a person. At a party, you can't get a word in edgewise for, like, an hour. But as a director, he is so completely open and just... present.

  

  Phil LaMarr
  • Party
  • Present

• The melody will tell me what the song should be about, the tone of the song. That's when the intellect comes in. Because I have a list of possible titles and concepts, and I expand on that.

  

  Sia LSD
  • Song

• I think there is a lot of good in making the All-Star Team. People look at your career a little bit differently.

  

  Frank Thomas
  • People
  • Good
  • Career

• Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.

  

  Plato
  • Great
  • Done

• Argumentative exhibitions bring issues to life in a way that very much irritates traditional curators who want to see their pictures valued for themselves.

  

  Jonathan Miller
  • Life

• Most regular superhero books are designed to go on forever; of course, very few of them do, but the point is they are trying to throw mud against the wall and hope it will stick, and most of it slides off.

  

  Garth Ennis
  • Trying
  • Hope
  • Forever

• I wanted to get that Division I scholarship and play ball and go to school for free, and I was always about getting to that next step... I was always ahead of myself in some way, shape or form, and trying to envision how to get further along and closer to fulfilling that dream of being free and having creative agency, so to speak.

  

  Mahershala Ali
  • Trying
  • School
  • Dream

• You are my siren,” he said, running his hands along her thighs and down her calves, feeling the shape of her even as the silk of her gown kept them both from what they wanted. “My temptress . . . my sorceress . . . I cannot resist you, no matter how I try. You threaten to send me over the edge.

  

  Sarah MacLean
  • Trying
  • Running
  • Feelings

• The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score.

  

  Wayne Jacobsen
  • Trying
  • Christian
  • Score