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.
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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.
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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?'
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We conclude that in the field of public education the doctrine of 'separate but equal' has no place.
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English football is so physical and fast that when you see a space, you have to go into it with all your speed.
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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.
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Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.
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If you owe the bank $100 that's your problem. If you owe the bank $100 million, that's the bank's problem.
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When it's all said and done, I want to look back on my career and say I did numerous things.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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I am against boycotts in general: boycotts against us as well as anything and everything that can be boycotted.
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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.
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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.
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I think there is a lot of good in making the All-Star Team. People look at your career a little bit differently.
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Better a little which is well done, than a great deal imperfectly.
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It's very hard to deal with true subject matter, especially when you're writing about such weighty issues.
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I had a multicultural exposure; that's why I don't believe in a particular religion. I have respect for most because I grew up surrounded by so many. I don't judge people by that, and I feel extremely offended when people categorise based on race, religion, or gender.
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Like most struggling writers trying to get their scripts commissioned, I had to do something odd to pay the rent. So, aged 21, I started up my own small cheesecake company in Philadelphia.
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I try to put my heart out there to everybody. They don't have to be Christian. For example, I have lots of Jewish readers. I love my Jewish readers.
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During the seven years that I worked as a management consultant, I spent a lot of time trying to look older than I was. I became pretty good at furrowing my brow and putting on somber expressions.
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The sad truth is that most Christians spend their entire lives trying to score points with Someone who is not keeping score.
