D. A. Carson Quotes
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The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.
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As a kid, looking at Michael Jackson, Marvin Gaye, New Edition, the Temptations, Motown, people who I felt were huge artists, they made me wanna do something.
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People in love don't see gender, colour or religion. Or age. It's about the other person, the one that you love and who loves you. You don't think of them in terms of a label. You just go with your heart.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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The people are hungry: It is because those in authority eat up too much in taxes.
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My parents had a great marriage. Interestingly, it made it harder for me in relationships because I knew what a good relationship looked like.
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Kicks are my forte. I've got strong legs and high kicks. And I've got very good reach, obviously.
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I am bullish on the global development. I am bullish on billions of people getting out of poverty.
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I never thought I was a very good manager.
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I firmly disbelieve that one has to be a tortured soul to write good music.
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You know you're going to have a good day when your morning begins with breakfast in the same room as Carrie Tiffany, David Vann and Lionel Shriver.
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After people have repeated a phrase a great number of times, they begin to realize it has meaning and may even be true.
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I understand entertaining. You want people to walk out saying, 'I spent a night with interesting people.'
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I think it's important for people of colour to have similar opportunities to white people; that's what is most important.
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When one tears away the veils and shows them naked, people's souls give off such a pungent smell of decay.
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I think, ultimately, open always wins out. It wins out because you cannot lock data in; you can't lock people in. They will find a way out.
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Since being diagnosed with Asperger's, I'd been working with an acting coach who has now become a good friend. We'd been trying lots of improvisational techniques to help me with some of the problems I experience. But it's a very slow process.
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I don't have memories of Ethiopia as a child. I didn't learn about Ethiopian culture until after I moved to New York and started meeting people from the Ethiopian community.
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The most important area for spending restraint is entitlement reform.
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I live on the edge of Bath. It's really lovely, but its very loveliness freaks me out a bit. It's peaceful, a great antidote to the craziness of being on tour, but sometimes I feel as though I've retired.
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You practice mindfulness, on the one hand, to be calm and peaceful. On the other hand, as you practice mindfulness and live a life of peace, you inspire hope for a future of peace.
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There is something in the pang of change more than the heart can bear, unhappiness remembering happiness.
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Most good evangelical Study Bibles have more in common than people sometimes realize. All of them are committed to explaining the Bible to lay readers.
