D. A. Carson Quotes
We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.
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If I had to study and work hard, it would have to have the reward of a lot of cash.
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It's very easy to have slogans and rhetoric that people will follow, but eventually the slogans fall away.
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My grandfather arrived in Houston in 1942 as a refugee from Nazi Germany. He had lost everything - his profession, his language, his money - but the city welcomed him, as it has hundreds of thousands of immigrants over the years.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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There is no bore like a clever bore.
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I wish I could compete again, but my good feeling is, these competitions are better as exhibitions.
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If I go out there and am myself, and I do what makes me comfortable and what I think is true to my artistry, and they don't like it, then that's fine. I walk off stage, and I know there's nothing there's nothing I could have done differently.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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I love having wine with my meals. And if I splurge, I'm going to splurge big, because if I deny my cravings, it just ends up backfiring on me, you know?
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In business, every phase of things counts. Companies that just yell out a low price today to win business aren't going to make money in the long term.
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I think often the West does not understand the history and the privilege of wearing a hijab. They always think of oppression.
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I don't want to argue with my wife about her car - or my driving.
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Showbiz can be cruel.
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The years keep going by and you realize, Wow. Doing these records is such a process: going on tour for a year and a half, then you get home and you want to do other things.
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Many people find themselves with illness as they become successful: higher blood pressure and diabetes.
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Canada has been a breeding ground for great comedic actors, sketch artists and stand-up comedians. We grew up with a different perspective on the world.
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The way to be a man if you're a little boy is to be willing to throw your weight around.
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Petty laws breed great crimes.
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I believe in art, and more fundamentally the freedom to express one's self creatively. People don't know yet what they'll ultimately believe in or how they'll organize their lives. They're kind of in limbo.
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My only plan every day is to get up and go to work, work hard and come back home. And whatever else needs to happen in my life will come in its own time.
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I didn't go into journalism thinking it would solidify my identity. I did it because I needed to make a living, and I was proficient in writing. But in becoming a journalist, I learned about other people who felt like they were on the edges of American mainstream life.
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My father would never have said about any of his children you shouldn't express your opinions. But it's the way in which you express them. And for me to do - to speak at demonstrations and be as strident as I was now I see wasn't right. And it - there was a better way to do it. I could have written articles.
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We do not drift into spiritual life or disciplined prayer. We will not grow in prayer unless we plan to pray.
