Craig S. Keener Quotes
Because I am committed to the truth of Scripture, I must try to understand what Scripture says, even if it transcends my own experience.
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I did not support any more New York. I lived 10 years there, and after September 11, I felt very European. I did not share the opinion of people in the street, who were deeply influenced by what they heard in the media.
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I'm going to get hated for saying this, but honestly, fantasy is easy to write because you can do anything. It's like when Raymond Chandler brings in a bloke with a gun when he's stuck - in fantasy, up pops a wizard, and off we go.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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If the American government can't stand behind the dollar, the world's benchmark currency, then the global financial system will very likely enter a new era in which there is much less trade and much less economic growth. It would be, by most accounts, the largest self-imposed financial disaster in history.
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In the material sciences these are and have been, and are most surely likely to continue to be heroic days.
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I don't want to deal with big, grand themes in my stories; art has nothing to do with themes. When you deal with themes, you are not creating; you are lecturing.
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Bob Dylan impresses me about as much as... well, I was gonna say a slug but I like slugs.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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The retired L.A.P.D. motor cops who work set security now, all wear the same uniform, they're great guys with great stories, and they're great at their job, providing security on sets.
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You can almost read any emotion through someone's eyes.
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I would like to do something modern and possibly funny.
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I'm not a consumer. I hate buying clothes. I don't have a mobile. I just don't need things. I don't like things.
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I'm absolutely, l00 percent, not guilty.
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Once, and only once, I walked on stage and my mind went utterly blank! I had no idea why I was there! My fellow actors had to rescue me. I was very young and new to the business, so I'm glad it didn't give me stage fright for the rest of my life!
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Rich people don't pay taxes? Of course they pay taxes - they pay tons in taxes. They pay for everyone else who doesn't pay taxes.
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It is easy to lay the blame on successive governments for failing to address health as a fundamental right for the Indian people. But the real tragedy is that we, the people of India, have not taken our government to task for this catastrophic failure.
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I would like to think I'm a good secret-keeper, when it comes to friends. I'm quite loyal like that.
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Actors are real egomaniacs. They get into a movie, they think the whole movie's about them.
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Accident, he wondered, or a way of hiding? Trapped or planned? He had no way of knowing and further speculation was ridiculous, based as it necessarily must be upon earlier assumptions that were entirely without support.
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I keep telling myself I should try very hard to write a novel of about 210 pages... I don't seem to be capable of it, but I keep hoping it will happen.
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I was assigned boy at birth but I have always known I was a girl.
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Because I am committed to the truth of Scripture, I must try to understand what Scripture says, even if it transcends my own experience.
