D. A. Carson Quotes
The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.
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If someone is sad, they put on a song, or if someone wants to rock out, and they want to get into a good mood, they put on music. Just being able to be a part of something like that I feel like was my ultimate push to do music.
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I would like to be remembered as someone who did the best she could with the talent she had.
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Men move through a much different process before commitment than women do.
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In the north we could not hope to keep the worst and poorest servant for a single day in the wretched discomfort in which our negro servants are forced habitually to live.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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I think watching Channing Tatum caress his Lego Oscar statue will be something I won't forget. Even if I try.
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In the south, whether it is a small film or a big film, everybody sees it. So, there is always something for everybody to come, see, and enjoy.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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Still, records are documents of a period of time. Most records are documents of two or three years, and I just approached it as a record I was doing over a 20-year period of time.
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Your most precious possessions on offense are your twenty-seven outs.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
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I'm a big fan of Samantha Bee's.
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There are actors who can pull of a writer's lines; I am not competent enough to do that.
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We had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.' We worked hard.
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I have been portrayed by actors in three television documentaries, two plays, one musical and a film. It's no fun watching yourself being traduced and imitated by an actor.
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Life has been very hard on me, but, at the same time, it has taught me a great deal.
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Parents are the bones on which children cut their teeth.
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I always look to play flawed characters. I'm not very interested in playing somebody that's just, you know, the very nice one or the attractive one, or whatever, which a lot of female parts can just be written that way.
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The person who prays more in public than in private reveals that he is less interested in God's approval than in human praise. Not piety but a reputation for piety is his concern.
