Craig S. Keener Quotes
Revelation announces that God is still in control and that he will conclude this stage of history the way he has promised.
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The older I get, the more I realize the importance of maintaining an even temperament - not getting too emotional, focusing on the task at hand. You don't want to make a business deal based on your emotions.
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It is wonderful to say that your days behind a school desk are over. It's just another phase in your life.
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No matter what a woman looks like, if she's confident, she's sexy.
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I'm always nervous when I start a new picture.
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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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I keep setting the bar higher for myself in terms of what I'm trying to accomplish.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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The Chinese people have been forced to forget the Tiananmen massacre. There has been no public debate about the event, no official apology. The media aren't allowed to mention it. Still today people are being persecuted and imprisoned for disseminating information about it.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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Yusuf Qaradawi is probably the most well-known legal authority in the whole Muslim world today.
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I actually think the one who is underestimated in terms of impact he's had on society is Bill Gates. The reason is that with the innovation of software, he really allowed the computer revolution to take hold.
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The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.
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Like a welcome summer rain, humor may suddenly cleanse and cool the earth, the air and you.
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The creation of something new is not accomplished by the intellect but by the play instinct acting from inner necessity. The creative mind plays with the objects it loves.
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After the first million, money isn't important.
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Affluence means influence.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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The final revelation is that Lying, the telling of beautiful untrue things, is the proper aim of Art.
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To empty the heart does not mean to not love. On the contrary, true love, as God intented it, is purest when it is not based on a false attachment. The process of first emptying the heart can be found in the beginning half of the shahada (declaration of faith).
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I wrote a book called ‘Dancing The Dream’. It was more autobiographical than Moonwalk, which I did with Mrs. Onassis. It wasn’t full of gossip and scandal and all that trash that people write, so I don’t think people paid much attention to it, but it came from my heart. It was essays, thoughts and things that I’ve thought about while on tour...
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I like humor: the sort of gentle humor that points out human foibles.
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I was mainly influenced by the Carter Family, Jimmie Rodgers, Loretta Lynn, Merle Haggard, and others like Bob Dylan, Johnny Cash.
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Revelation announces that God is still in control and that he will conclude this stage of history the way he has promised.
