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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I don't have traceable literary models because I haven't had great literary influences in my life.
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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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I actually have a fear of the water because I nearly drowned. I got caught in a rip tide, and I wasn't a good swimmer because that was when I was emigrating from England to Australia.
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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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You just can't control your art in the future.
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There's such a preoccupation with liquidity and such an unwillingness to invest beyond the horizon of the next quarter and making sure that the CEOs hit their quarterly earnings.
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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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I actually voted for Nader.
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More women should actively participate in space flight. There are many well educated women working in the space industry; they are very good candidates.
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My forte is playing drunks down the ages. When my agent rings me about a role, I don't ask what the part is, but what century it's in.
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It is the job of the market to turn the base material of our emotions into gold.
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Generally speaking, there's some quality of compulsion that attaches itself to the idea of the list. It's true that lists organise the daily chaos of working life. But the impulse to make lists has to do with something more than either administrative practicalities or the record of a creative process.
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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.
