Craig S. Keener Quotes
Those who look down on other Christians because they lack a particular gift or experience, or those who despise a particular gift and look down on Christians who have it, are not demonstrating spiritual maturity.
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'Henry V' is a great deal more than almost any other hell-bent-for-armor movie that you've seen.
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I think 'Caprica' is a little out of left field, which is kind of what I love about it. It's a little different. The first couple of episodes are really about wrapping your head around this world. I love 'Grey's Anatomy,' but I think it's the same kind of concept: You just get lost in this world, and you believe what they're setting up.
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The thing that can get kind of annoying is, when you travel so much, how hectic it gets. I was being interviewed once - it was a phone interview - and they said, 'Where are you right now?' and I didn't know where I was.
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I never thought about money; otherwise, I would have left aged 26 when Real Madrid and Barcelona wanted me.
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The iPod completely changed the way people approach music.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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My junior high was dreadful. I see a lot of my fellow alumni on America's Most Wanted.
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As a teenager, I put a lot of pressure on myself, and a lot of that, for me, was about finding a moral high ground. As I've grown up, I've decided to abandon that because it made me judgmental and also stressed me out.
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Canadians can get Parliament working again. Here's how to do that: elect more New Democrats.
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Publication in 'The New Yorker' meant everything, and it's no exaggeration to say that it changed my life.
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The coming of honor or disgrace must be a reflection of one's inner power.
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The actresses I most admire are Cameron Diaz and Sofia Vergara. They're amazing comedic actresses and also gorgeous. That's the direction I'd like my career to go in.
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I love the 2000s because everyone started to love haute couture.
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I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.
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'I do not need nobody tellin' me who I am! I know who I am!...I be walkin' down the hallway, they call me names. They call me faggot, they call me sissy, I say, 'Oh yeah? Well, you forgot, I'm also a model and a actress, so fuck you too!''
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I am working in Paris. I cannot for a single day get the thought out of my head that there probably exists something essential, some immutable reality, and now that I have lost everything else (thank God, it gets lost all on its own) I am trying to preserve this and, what is more, not to be content. In a word: I am working.
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Remember we're all in this alone.
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And you wish to be a poet; and you wish to be a lover.
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I'm not confused. I'm just well mixed.
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When you win an election, you are always inclined to believe you won for the reasons you wanted to win.
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Give people plenty and security, and they will fall into spiritual torpor.
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Those who look down on other Christians because they lack a particular gift or experience, or those who despise a particular gift and look down on Christians who have it, are not demonstrating spiritual maturity.
