D. A. Carson Quotes
God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
Quotes to Explore
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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It's a blessing as an artist to express myself - whether that be via dance, via song or via speech - in so many different ways.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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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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Istanbul is a vast place. There are very conservative neighbourhoods, there are places that are upper class, Westernised, consuming Western culture.
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You can only be free as an artist if you're free as a person.
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Maxim for life: You get treated in life the way you teach people to treat you.
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I've been in Washington ever since 1981, trying to get out!
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I gain strength out of familiar surroundings.
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In all fields of creativity you see the result of work that has become habit. Where the creative impulse has become flaccid or has died out altogether, and yet because it is our work and our life we continue to do it.
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I've been asked to do 'I'm a Celebrity... Get Me Out of Here!' and I do get asked to do all sorts of things like that - but I don't want to put my career on hold. I'd have to take three weeks off to do something like that. Maybe it's something I'd think about after it's all ended.
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I actually think the same things do make most people happy. The differences are extremely small, and around the margins. You like peach ice cream; I like strawberry ice cream. Both of us like ice cream much better than a smack on the head with two-by-four.
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I wouldn't mind having my heart broken because it would mean that I had that much feeling connected to somebody. And that would be really great.
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Improv relies just as much on listening as it does you delivering dialogue. That's the hard for some people. Some people just concentrate on what they're going to say, and they're not listening. You have to listen in order to see where the other person is going to.
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I read everything and anything. I love books.
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The European Union will never see America, or an American president, as a risk.
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Be modest, be respectful of others, try to understand.
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If I am not right for something there are many talented actors out there that will get it.
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Let me just make this point, John...We're not campaigning anymore. The election's over.
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He swayed in the strong wind that pressed against his back. He swayed forward, on the brink of the high cliff. And his right foot, his enormous iron right foot, lifted-up, out, into space, and the Iron Man stepped forward, off the cliff, into nothingness.
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I just love writing. It's magical, it's somewhere else to go, it's somewhere much more dreadful, somewhere much more exciting. Somewhere I feel I belong, possibly more than in the so-called real world.
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Whenever I think about funk music, it has a look - and that's how it sounds.
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Satan does not tempt us just to make us do wrong things- he tempts us to make us lose what God has put into us through regeneration, namely, the possibility of being of value to God.
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God is a talking God, and thus you must come to wrestle with him. You must wrestle with what he said.
