Brian Houston Quotes
The moment we think we can is when we take our eyes off Jesus—and that’s when we begin to sink!
Quotes to Explore
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Newark might be one of few the places where the politics is tougher than even Brooklyn.
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I choose to focus on the positive.
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Feminism is sort of like God. Many people profess to believe in it, but no one seems to be able to define it to everyone's satisfaction.
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The battle against cancer has made me strong. It's like winning a war! When I was diagnosed, I was told by doctors my kidney, liver and other organs could fail. It was tough. I didn't know if I could save my life. But I was positive, and because of that, the doctor told me that I would be a man who would never have cancer.
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Nobody is impervious to misfortune.
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The coolest thing about the series is that we stay very true to the books; it would be silly for us not to, because the books are exactly what the fans want to see. There's an action side to it, which I love, and there are werewolves now. There aren't just vampires. There's a wolf pack.
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Marlon was so sensitive, you thought the poor guy just had a bad education.
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I have this ratio that if you divide age of entrepreneur by market cap of company. For Facebook it's one. Every year of his life Zuckerberg has been making $1 billion for investors.
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Youth is ever apt to judge in haste, and lose the medium in the wild extreme.
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I'd rather marry my husband in the stage where I know what I'm getting into and what it's going to be like for our life together.
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You find in the Koran hundreds of verses to support women's rights, and perhaps four or five that do not.
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If you're going to America, bring your own food.
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You don't want the world destroyed, because, you know, that's where your shoes are.
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Most of western culture is a distortion of reality. But reality should be distorted; that is, imaginatively amended. The Buddhist acquiescence to nature is neither accurate about nature nor just to human potential.
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I am not gay. I never have been gay.
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An excess of boringness does not make a thing interesting except in the driest academic sense. A place is not boring if you have to look really hard for something which is interesting. If there is absolutely nothing interesting about any particular place, then that is a perfectly interesting and quintessentially un-boring place.
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Every human being experiences risks; some of the risks are common to all humans, and some are unique to the life each of us has been given to live. But I know for certain that risk – both it's shadow and its reality – has shaped my life inside and out.
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...in general, the traditionalists are backward-looking, conservative; pessimists about the future and optimists about the past.
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It’s a buzz every time you perform under pressure.
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My daughter wants to do yoga with me and wants to be in the theater thing, and I can't tell her, 'Don't be an actress.' My son loves guitar and loves to be in a band and wants his iTunes downloaded with all this old-school hip-hop so he understands where hip-hop came from.
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Seek the seeker.
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I had a messy signature as a child, and my grandmother said this suggested I had no regard for other people. She was right.
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His true Being comes to light and even penetrates his clothing. We should not limit ourselves to Jesus. We have to recognize ourselves, our own true form... Life would be so simple if we could always see what we are; if we could recognize what our neighbors are. If we could see the beams of light that pass through their clothing; if we could not only see their external form, but also experience their true being.
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The moment we think we can is when we take our eyes off Jesus—and that’s when we begin to sink!
