Adam Hamilton Quotes
If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
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It is not God's will merely that we should be happy, but that we should make ourselves happy.
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I started modelling when I was 13, so I learned a lot of things. I actually love doing make-up on other people, too.
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Suffering passes, while love is eternal. That's a gift that you have received from God. Don't waste it.
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I was strong and healthy and I was enjoying what I was doing.
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Doing leads more surely to talking than talking to doing.
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My God, I don't know anyone who likes to accumulate their wealth more than the Europeans.
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When you're writing a book, you don't really think about it critically. You don't want to know too well what you're doing. First, you write the book, then you find the justification for it.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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I absolutely loathe the idea of doing a fragrance simply as a moneymaker. Personal brand to make money? Vomit.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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I'm fascinated by the capacity to be able to do harm. I struggle every day with the ability of people to do evil. Not just the big things - the petty things that people do in order to make someone feel small, when it's so easy to do, and it hurts so much.
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I never wanted to be a director. I came into this industry by the little door, so I never learned anything; I never went to school. Actors will tell you I'm very precise. I just have the intuition of doing things.
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Little progress can be made by merely attempting to repress what is evil. Our great hope lies in developing what is good.
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At a shoot, I'm really aware of everything. When they do makeup, sometimes I can't see what they're doing, but I can feel it. I know what I look like, even when I can't see what they've done. I know how to compose myself.
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Personally, I'm not into reality shows - I can't even name a reality show that I was a really big fan of, altogether as a whole, not just from MTV. Like, if ABC has another reality show, I'm like, 'Oh God, another reality show.' But people love them. 'The Hills', 'Laguna Beach'... those do extremely well. It's just a personal preference.
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Second, we also got a more authentic liturgy of the people of God, in the vernacular language.
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I do think that there is a hunger in the land for a vision of confessional Christianity that is robust, God-centered, tough-minded, able to address today and tomorrow and the next day, and comprehensive.
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Orwell wasn't right about where society was in 1984. We haven't turned into that sort of surveillance society. But that may be, at least in small part, because of his book. The notion that ubiquitous surveillance and state manipulation of the media is evil is deeply engrained in us.
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For am I now trying to win the favor of people, or God? Or am I striving to please people?
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The performing part of it, that's what I live for. I've always told people that's what I was born for. I believe, with the proper things around me, and everything I need as a performer; band, and all that kind of stuff, I still feel to this day there's no one that can touch me. Still.
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When e-commerce companies build scale, cost comes down. Companies that can handle scale and reduce costs over time will win. Margins will come from reducing costs over time and not by increasing prices. Technology is the answer at large scale.
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Cocoa boosts brain serotonin. Almost every single antidepressant aims at either enhancing serotonin or keeping it in the brain longer. Chocolate or cocoa does that very well.
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No longer is the female destined solely for the home and the rearing of the family and only the male for the marketplace and the world of ideas.
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If 'everything happens for a reason,' then every act of evil is ultimately God's doing.
