Jad Gillies Quotes
I loved the culture of the youth ministry. It was exciting and there were lots of young people, and they were just excited about God. We had this thought that we wanted to write songs that our friends and the people in our youth ministry would love to sing and would love to use to draw near to God, and that’s basically how it all got started.
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I imagine that yes is the only living thing.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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I think it's good politics to beat up on big companies and rich people.
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There is no age, height, or weight requirement to skate. It is good exercise no matter what your age is. If you want to be competitive, most start young. But, I practice with many adult competitors.
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AIDS had won gays sympathy; they no longer seemed the privileged brats that the general populace had resented in the 1970s.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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It is the addition of strangeness to beauty that constitutes the romantic character in art.
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When I was growing in the Callope project, we had an oval parkway. Pavement ran around this whole thing. We'd skate or ride bicycles. There were benches and trees out there. It was paradise to us. They finished building it the same year I was born.
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In short, competition has to shoulder the responsibility of explaining all the meaningless ideas of the economists, whereas it should rather be the economists who explain competition.
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Science has an important part to play in our everyday existence, and there is far too much neglect of science; but its intention is to supplement not to supplant the familiar outlook.
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Jealousy is a virtue of democracies which preserves them from tyrants.
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I pretty much got busted for everything, but I definitely stretched out my boundaries as a kid, as well.
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The sweetest two words in any negotiation are actually, 'That's right.' Before you convince them to see what you're trying to accomplish, you have to say the things to them that will get them to say, 'That's right.'
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Consider this: alms aside, Wikipedia is fueled by competitive pedantry and emo-ness. How great is that?
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Both the velodrome and the Commonwealth swimming pool are open to the public and are frequently used by local schools and the local community. Over the last six years young people have been inspired to take up swimming and cycling more seriously; some of them are now coming through as Olympic champions or hopefuls.
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World War I a railway war of centralization and encirclement. World War II a radio war of decentralization concluded by the Bomb. World War III a TV guerrilla war with no divisions between civil and military fronts. (p. 152)
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It has been said, and only half in jest, that a tough, professionally led union is a great force for improving management performance. It forces the manager to think about what he is doing and to be able to explain his actions and behavior.
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The morning is full of storm in the heart of summer. The clouds travel like white handkerchiefs of goodbye, the wind, travelling, waving them in its hands. The numberless heart of the wind beating above our loving silence. Orchestral and divine, resounding among the trees like a language full of wars and songs.
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I feel like being in a band, you get license to be a kid forever.
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Blinking is some way of tabulating - a kind of carriage return, click, or save to disk - that helps the process of 'Okay, now change the subject.' Every time you move your eyes, there's an interruption in the visual field - you go momentarily blind when your eyeballs are moving.
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I consider myself an artist. God granted me some gifts so that I could express myself artistically.
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What can 'scape the eye Of God, all-seeing, or deceive His heart. Omniscient!
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I loved the culture of the youth ministry. It was exciting and there were lots of young people, and they were just excited about God. We had this thought that we wanted to write songs that our friends and the people in our youth ministry would love to sing and would love to use to draw near to God, and that’s basically how it all got started.
