Erwin W. Lutzer Quotes
Thanksgiving for God’s faithfulness in our pain is the indisputable proof that we believe God is a part of our pain.
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Working with Terry Gilliam was magic - I've been watching his films since I was little.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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A cynic is a man who, when he smells flowers, looks around for a coffin.
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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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Hip-hop is the only music in the world where you can take any instrument and make it hip hop. It's anybody's music. It's what you make of it. That's for anything you do in life.
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Now more than ever is the time to really work on learning a money management system that can work, no matter how low things seem right now.
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The countenances of children, like those of animals, are masks, not faces, for they have not yet developed a significant profile of their own.
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The most dangerous leadership myth is that leaders are born-that there is a genetic factor to leadership. This myth asserts that people simply either have certain charismatic qualities or not. That's nonsense; in fact, the opposite is true. Leaders are made rather than born.
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We're growing up together, the human race. And we've discovered a lot of things that we didn't know. We're finding our way. Instead of thinking about doomsday all the time, think about how beautiful the world is. We're all together, and together we're getting wiser.
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They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
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No human being is innocent, but there is a class of innocent human actions called Games.
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One reason nearly half my books are for children is the glorious fact that the minds of children are still open to the living word; in the child, nightside and sunside are not yet separated; fantasy contains truths which cannot be stated in terms of proof.
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Democracy cannot be imposed on any nation from the outside. Each society must search for its own path, and no path is perfect.
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Gifts have ribbons, not strings.
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I like Liz Phair, but there were these stupid women reviewers who said she's surpassing the Stones. Dream on.
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Hegel remarks somewhere that all great world-historic facts and personages appear, so to speak, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second time as farce.
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The clarification of our political ideas insensibly changes into and becomes indistinguishable from the history of political ideas.
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Gary Ross is amazing. He’s just-he always has a billion ideas of what he wants, but has a very clear perspective also; he just makes it work. He really does. He’s trying different things and making everything look amazing.
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I've never known a writer who didn't feel ill at ease in the world. We all feel unhoused in some sense. That's part of why we write. We feel we don't fit in, that this world is not our world, that though we may move in it, we're not of it. You don't need to write a novel if you feel at home in the world.
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Some things are more precious because they don't last long.
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One should never be sexually involved with anyone one genuinely cares for. A sexual relationship guarantees a loss.
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A winner-takes-all economy that offers only limited access to the middle class is a recipe for democratic malaise and dereliction.
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Children are apt to live up to what you believe of them.
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Thanksgiving for God’s faithfulness in our pain is the indisputable proof that we believe God is a part of our pain.
