Katie Davis Quotes
But I am living in the midst of the uncertainty and risk, amid things that can and do bring physical destruction, because I am running from things that can destroy my soul: complacency, comfort, and ignorance. I am much more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.
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I aspire only to silence.
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All the evidence shows very clearly that if you are a member of a trade union you are likely to get better pay, more equal pay, better health and safety, more chance to get training, more chance to have conditions of work that help if you have caring responsibilities... the list goes on!
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But I used to have a bit of a gambling problem. And that would have been the answer to my prayers. It got worse when I started playing this character, too.
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Time stays, we go.
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As a kid at school, I had a lot of really good teachers and I had a lot of really bad teachers, and I just know how much of an impact those can have on a young child. To be one of the good teachers - I want to have that kind of impact.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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The Americans are more honest about it and just call it college rock.
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There are artists who think they have to be on top all the time. I think that would be exhausting.
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I think it's always good for the author to stay a good cattle prod's distance from the actual moviemaking.
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Anytime there was an award show, it was a ritual where me and my mom would sit around and watch with my friends. We would make desserts and buy chips and popcorn and see what our favorite performances of the night were.
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I studied one term of law and then came to realize I had a little better fastball and curve than I did a vocabulary.
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As I approach my 90th birthday, my friends are asking how it feels like, to have completed 90 orbits around the Sun. Well, I actually don't feel a day older than 89!
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When I'm on stage, I'm trying to do one thing: bring people joy. Just like church does. People don't go to church to find trouble, they go there to lose it.
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I just do what I do. It's not something that should be revered as something that's great.
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We live in a world defined by the rapid pace of technological change.
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I hate wasting time.
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I love being a writer. What I can't stand is the paperwork.
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'You Are So Beautiful,' I think, is probably the, you know, the strongest tune I ever did in just the simplicity in it.
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It was more possible that the human race possessed some spark of divinity that was worth cultivating than that a mysterious being was up there in the ether somewhere with anthropomorphic qualities of goodness and mercy running the whole show.
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The gospel declares that no matter how dutiful or prayerful we are, we can't save ourselves. What Jesus did was sufficient.
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If God hadn't meant for us to eat sugar, he wouldn't have invented dentists.
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I don't think it's right that everybody knows everything about me.
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But I am living in the midst of the uncertainty and risk, amid things that can and do bring physical destruction, because I am running from things that can destroy my soul: complacency, comfort, and ignorance. I am much more terrified of living a comfortable life in a self-serving society and failing to follow Jesus than I am of any illness or tragedy.
