Adam Hamilton Quotes
The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
Quotes to Explore
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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To be truthful, Jay-Z wouldn't have a quarter of the records sold today if it wasn't for the white people buying his records.
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My earliest memories of rap music was mixed with my earliest memories of reggae music. They were big sounds around the way, heavy bass lines, strong messages, definitely.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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I've done a few studio films in the last few years where I feel like I've done good work, and then I only end up in two scenes. That's been very disappointing.
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What's surprised me most about the demands of blogging - the relentlessness of it. 24-hour news cycle, every media imaginable right here in New York, totally fair game.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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I'd rather betray the world than let the world betray me.
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Musical theater is one of my passions.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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If you want to learn about America, watch 'The Wire.' It's a profound piece of entertainment.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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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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It's more fun to keep stuff secret.
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A lot of times you go to a concert, and when you leave, you don't know anything more about the act then when you got there.
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Never in the way, and never out of the way.
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I would say that God is much bigger than all of this. I've been through difficult times where it just seems like hope is nowhere to be found, but those are some of the greater moments where we run to Christ a little faster and hang on a little tighter. Through the hardest times in life, I hope people turn to him and realize he's still a sovereign God; he's in control.
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The earliest stories in Genesis were not written to tell primeval history. They were written to tell readers about themselves and about God.
