Colin S. Smith Quotes
God did not love you because of your background, your intelligence, your good looks, your prayers, your ministry, your commitment, your faith, or your good life. God loves you…because He loves you. Let that lead you to worship.
Quotes to Explore
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The romanticised life, where all the great poetry and music and art of the world comes from, is great but it requires a lot of self-indulgence.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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There are no rebels in the cinema business.
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I always said when I was younger, I wanted to write film music, and I think that's what my ultimate dream is.
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Anybody I'm dating, I don't want them to talk about my music. I don't talk about my music to them.
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At 93, I'm not looking forward to fame and fortune.
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We would be in a nasty position indeed if empirical science were the only kind of science possible.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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The only time I've been arrested was in opposing the Marble Hill nuclear power plant in Indiana. That was in 1979.
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Basically, what it comes down to is I love what I do. I don't do it for fame. I don't do it for money. I just love it.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I am not a second option person. It is that or nothing. If it is not the way I see it I prefer not to see it.
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Listen, I'm a sweet guy. I'm just intense at work. I have nothing but the end result in mind. My entire career has been like that.
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Walking is the only way proven to stave off cognitive decline - it works.
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Fiction is the thing I esteem most in my own work; I feel that, even if it's no good, only I could have written those books.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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You gotta have a dream. If you don't have a dream, how you gonna make a dream come true?
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Despair is perfectly compatible with a good dinner, I promise you.
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Beauty is a rebellion against time.
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It's one thing to be banal, stupid, and idiotic on the inside. It's another to have it captured in writing.
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We must be on our guard against giving interpretations which are hazardous or opposed to science, and so exposing the word of God to the ridicule of unbelievers.
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God did not love you because of your background, your intelligence, your good looks, your prayers, your ministry, your commitment, your faith, or your good life. God loves you…because He loves you. Let that lead you to worship.
