Randy Alcorn Quotes
God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.
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I had to face a lot coming through this journey, a lot of sacrifices, difficulties, challenges, and injuries.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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In writing about Harold and Maureen with their terrible unspoken secret, and all those people that Harold meets as he walks to save a friend's life, I was trying to celebrate the ordinary people.
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I look around my house, and everything except the kids and dogs was made in China. And I'm not sure about the kids. They have brown eyes and small noses.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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Maybe it is the media that has us divided.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I discovered that the study of past philosophers is of little use unless our own reality enters into it. Our reality alone allows the thinker's questions to become comprehensible.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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If there's anything that I've always said about myself is that to me, it's much more important for me to get to work with filmmakers that I've grown up loving and admiring.
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The commonest error made in relation to poetry is that it consists simply in verse-making. Many confound the casket of meter and rhyme with the jewel of thought which it encloses, and, perhaps, in some instances, after close investigation, they have found the casket empty and turned away with feelings of disappointment and disgust.
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The strength of British theatre should be that these actors in their middle years know what they're doing and are good at it. Not rich, not famous, but making a living.
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I absolutely adore Thanksgiving. It's the only holiday I insist on making myself.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.
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Mr. Speaker, genocide is the most potent of all crimes against humanity because it is an effort to systematically wipe out a people and a culture as well as individual lives.
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Fortunate those who, born before science, were privileged to die of their first disease!
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I was never top of the class at school, but my classmates must have seen potential in me, because my nickname was Einstein.
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I think, in some ways, that is the balm of stories, of fables, of tales: it's the way we're wired. We have always needed to distill what we're going through and try to understand it by looking either backwards or forwards. And the hardest is to look in the now.
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God prospers me not to raise my standard of living, but to raise my standard of giving.
