Craig S. Keener Quotes
Sure, sir, I will,” I promised, “but I just want to tell you first that Jesus loves you.”
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If it's free, it's advice; if you pay for it, it's counseling; if you can use either one, it's a miracle.
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It's very hard to be an innovator at the highest level in any discipline. For some chefs it's merely about combining ingredients, but that's something you can do with your eyes closed.
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You either are or you're not.
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Faith - you can do very little with it, but you can do nothing without it.
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You have to understand, I can't do any jokes about Ross Perot, because the last thing I need right now is another credit check.
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When you're younger they always try to get you to do every ninny role that's going.
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When you do scenes that are just exposition, they feel false.
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When you run into something interesting, drop everything else and study it.
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You can't try to be authentic. You either are or you aren't.
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Unless you're a salesman, or a bad guest on a talk show, you don't call someone by his name that often.
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Every time you make a guess of what a judge is going to do... you're wrong, so I try to stay away from that.
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The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
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No one teaches you how to be a famous person; no one teaches you how to be a role model. It's something you have to do on your own.
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
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When a city says, 'If you're illegal, come here, we're not going to prosecute you,' the federal law should supersede the local mayor's edict.
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If you know how to make software, then you can create big things.
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When you take on something like your footprint on the environment, you have to say, 'Where am I going to draw the circle around my level of responsibility and then where do I assume that others will take responsibility?'
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I base jumped off the Jesus statue in Rio de Janeiro.
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When I first put my hat in the ring, several very tried and true and loyal Democratic activists from our community said, 'What? She's not a Democrat. She's a Republican.' I took that as a compliment, you know, that people didn't necessarily know what my ideology might be because I wasn't driven by that.
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We must erase bin Laden's ugly legacy, not extend it: by ending the Patriot Act's erosion of our civil liberties, we can protect the freedoms that make America worth fighting for.
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Homer is the nice side of Al Bundy with the same intellect. I really like him and Al Bundy.
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I like to think of my behavior in the sixties as a 'learning experience.' Then again, I like to think of anything stupid I've done as a 'learning experience.' It makes me feel less stupid.
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I think people are attracted to teaching because they want to make a real impact.
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Sure, sir, I will,” I promised, “but I just want to tell you first that Jesus loves you.”
