Christopher West Quotes
If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.
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I surround myself with positive, productive people of good will and decency.
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It's hard to have people talking about you and trashing you in the media and saying they think your career is over... and you are only 25.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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I really don't believe in magic.
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I am not the only intense or intellectual cricketer. I played with other cricketers who could be pretty intense and intellectual.
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Detroit's industrial ruins are picturesque, like crumbling Rome in an 18th-century etching.
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I am prepared to oppose a Jim Crow army till I rot in jail.
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Work means independence. It allowed me to shape my life on so many levels.
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Once you join the queue for the immigration line, pay attention to what the expeditor tells you. Have your papers ready. Don't have your cell phone out. Take off your hat. Open your passport to the page with your photo and present it to the immigration officer already open.
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I have four of the most incredible children. And I have five grandchildren.
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The most important thing that I've figured out is that things work out the way they're supposed to. We try to have all this control and fashion things the way we want, but everything happens for a reason, and in the end it works out the way it's supposed to.
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Apart from the known and the unknown, what else is there?
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Lunchtime and recess, that was a big part for me growing up. I think it's important for kids to have that.
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Never buy four C-plus paintings when you can buy one A.
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The world is what it is; men who are nothing, who allow themselves to become nothing, have no place in it.
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The power of emotions as drivers of behaviour, especially when survival is perceived as being at stake, needs to be recognised and taken into account at all levels of society and governance.
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I don't want to be conducting Mahler with my head stuffed full of 10 million notes from other composers.
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I can't see any great evidence that humans have any ability to access anything other than the material world. Beyond that, who knows, but there's no good evidence that would take me to any particular belief.
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I've done the same thing in the world of business that winners do in the game. I watch them, admire them.
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Liberty must be allowed to work out its natural results; and these will, ere long, astonish the world.
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His gaze wandered from the windows to the stars, as if he would have read in them something that was hidden from him. Many of us would, if we could; but none of us so much as know our letters in the stars yet - or seem likely to do it, in this state of existence - and few languages can be read until their alphabets are mastered.
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If we want to know what's most sacred in this world, all we need to do is look for what is most violently profaned.
