D. A. Carson Quotes
...sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.
Quotes to Explore
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Law and order are the medicine of the body politic and when the body politic gets sick, medicine must be administered.
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If Turkey wants to join Europe, it will have to become a European country, and that might take a long time.
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In my experience, I think there's must ado about fidelity and infidelity. I think sometimes true emotional relationships can go beyond those.
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I suppose I often think of my writing as quite impersonal. But it turned out, when my father died, writing was exactly what I wanted to do.
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We can have a World War, I see absolutely no reason why we shouldn't have a World Party.
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When I'm making music, I can hear all the parts, all the instruments. I can hear what it should be.
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Sometimes I'm happy - you can tell via Twitter. Sometimes I'm pissed off - you can tell via Twitter. I just think, at the end of the day, I don't want them to see me as a celebrity; I just want them to see me and say, 'He's like a regular person at his job right now who's mad.'
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A lot of people think that to make it as a model you just need to be pretty and slim, but they're wrong. There's a lot of hard work involved. You have to be very focused, know what kind of work you're aiming for.
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From regular, relative skydiving, I went on to freeflying. Freeflying is more the three-dimensional skydiving.
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It was a deliberate decision to act in family entertainers like 'Govindudu Andari Vadele' and 'Bruce Lee.'
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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If you get anything creative going, then the work and play thing is the same thing, I feel.
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I came out the box and for seven years I had a huge career. And then it's done, it's dumped. But I ain't gone, and I refuse to be gone.
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I did not come to NASA to make history.
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For correct writing, the cultivation of patience and mental accuracy is essential. Throughout the young author's period of apprenticeship, he must keep reliable dictionaries and textbooks at his elbow; eschewing as far as possible that hasty extemporaneous manner of writing which is the privilege of more advanced students.
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Some people are your relatives but others are your ancestors, and you choose the ones you want to have as ancestors. You create yourself out of those values.
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I really love writing, but I am very easily distracted: my two cats fighting, a rainbow, a TV show... I have to use every trick to keep myself at the computer.
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The essence is, what can we do next? And will it be good?
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I think that 'Saving Grace' is pretty funny. I think that the show and the woman have a pretty great sense of humor.
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I have lived in the only decades I could have lived in, and hope to live through at least a few more.
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Most immigration opponents are loath to admit it, at least publicly, but they are worried that the huge influx of Hispanics will somehow change America for the worse. But those fears are unfounded. Some may talk about the browning of America, but immigrants are a net positive.
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I have this theory that anything that happens to you that leaves you alive and intact can be used somewhere in your writing.
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...sometimes God chooses to bless us and make us people of integrity in the midst of abominable circumstances, rather than change our circumstances.
