David E. Sorensen Quotes
The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.
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I always enjoyed movies and in hindsight I realise how captivating they were to me.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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Ironically, the original Detroit Stock Exchange once sat less than a thousand feet from StockX headquarters here in downtown Detroit. It is only fitting that we are going to build the next iteration of the world's most efficient market invention almost in the same spot.
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I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.
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When I'm good I'm very, very good, but when I'm bad, I'm better.
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I then moved to the University of Western Ontario where I was made a full professor in 1985.
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I don't need to sell tons of records, but I want longevity. I want to make music for the rest of my life.
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So we listen. We add up associations of people with people. When a push against Scientology starts somewhere, we go over the people involved and weed them out. Push vanishes.
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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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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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Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.
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Every time we liberate a woman, we liberate a man.
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I'm so glad cities have personalities, just like people have personalities. That's something that makes me smile.
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I didn't expect anything crazy to happen from 'True Detective.'
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Disregard belief systems that aren't based on empirical studies.
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When I read comics, they were dense stories. When you put them down, there was a sense of having gotten a great deal from them.
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We're just nerds that play music. Because we get played on the radio and have a Vitaminwater ad with Aaron Paul dancing on a treadmill, people are going to say we sold out. I don't write music for that. I write music for me.
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We deify willpower and self-control - and mock its absence. People who achieve through remarkable willpower are 'strong' and 'heroic.' People who need help or structure are 'weak.' This is crazy - because few of us can accurately gauge or predict our willpower.
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Clear statement is argument.
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And often he who has chosen the fate of the artist because he felt himself to be different soon realizes that he can maintain neither his art nor his difference unless he admits that he is like the others. The artist forges himself to the others, midway between the beauty he cannot do without and the community he cannot tear himself away from.
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It is impossible to conduct your life as a disciple without definite times of secret prayer.
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I am going through changes
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The resolution of conflict in self is like the making one of opposites in art.
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The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.
