David E. Sorensen Quotes
The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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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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If Home Depot doesn't have it, Mark Bradford doesn't need it.
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I don't think there's anything wrong with a little sweat. I'm always moving, so it's normal for me, and it actually makes my curly hair better because it gives it a bit more texture and volume.
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Technology is making it easier for women to connect to business opportunities around the world. Legal obstacles must not be allowed to stand in their way. That's not just because it's economically smart. It's because discrimination shouldn't be the law.
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God doesn't want us to just feel gratitude, but for us to show it by giving thanks to God with our lives.
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God has enabled man to distinguish between his sister, his mother, his daughter and his wife.
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There is no mysterious essence we can call a 'place'. Place is change. It is motion killed by the mind, and preserved in the amber of memory.
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No matter what changes God has performed in you, never rely on them. Build only on a Person, the Lord Jesus Christ, and on the Spirit He gives.
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I have to ask myself how I can possibly expect to know Jesus as he would want to be known if my life remains unscathed by trouble and grief. How can I hope to grasp anything of God's heart for this broken planet if I never weep because its brokenness touches me and breaks my heart? How can I reflect his image if I never share in his sufferings? And how will any of us ever learn to treasure his hesed and grace if we never experience phases where these blessings seem absent?
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The world sees peace as the absence of conflict or pain, but Jesus offers us solace despite our suffering.
