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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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 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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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 attempt to make people uncomfortable; I think that my standards in terms of art and journalism always have necessitated my discomfort.
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I think with Blair Witch and The Sixth Sense, people are much more open to something that is different.
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There was really a snobbery from people in film - they did not want people who had come from television. It was the poor relation of show business, and especially situation comedy.
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The atmosphere is great for people - it allows us to survive - but it's a real headache for astronomers.
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I'll admit it, the Holocaust was definitely a bad thing, but do we really need Jewish people around? They have big noses. I said it! I said it!
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Writing a tribe is fun. They have their own language, their own slang; they repeat it, and it becomes part of the texture of the play. For a writer, that's thrilling. That's when my pen flies.
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I dropped out of the business for 8 years, and I taught English as a second language. Then I decided to go back to acting, and I got 'Mad Men'.
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Even if your family isn't quite there for you, find the people that support you and hang on to those people and try to let go of those that try to take you down.
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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.
