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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What strikes one here above all is the crudely empirical conception of profit derived from the outlook of the ordinary capitalist, which wholly contradicts the better esoteric understanding of Adam Smith.
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Was nennen die Menschen am liebsten dumm? Das Gescheite, das sie nicht verstehen.
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Your priorities must be God first, God second, and God third, until your life is continually face to face with God.
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I think any job you do is an opportunity to learn and an opportunity to explore and challenge yourself.
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Coming-of-age stories, people roll their eyes.
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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!
