Randy Alcorn Quotes
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So many paintings have hidden meanings or need wall texts, but my work is not in that category.
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When a man is in doubt about this or that in his writing, it will often guide him if he asks himself how it will tell a hundred years hence.
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'Getting smart on crime' does not mean reducing sentences or punishments for crimes.
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I'm tactile, very tactile. A woman who has really nice, looked-after skin is such a turn-on for me. It's always sexy.
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I think that women are much more collaborative; men are much more competitive.
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If I had foreseen Hiroshima and Nagasaki, I would have torn up my formula in 1905.
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In my last band, Soundgarden, I had a couple of different drummers sit in on some stuff and it was fun for me to kind of take a break and watch the band.
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Be You, Live Civil was a tour that I started, and it's just always something that I've been to myself. 'Be you, live civil' is like 'live my life.' That was my short version of saying to live my life.
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It's hard to sleep at night because I'm still wondering where my mother is.
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Of all the failed technologies that litter the onward march of science - steam carriages, zeppelins, armoured trains - none has been so catastrophic to prosperity as the last century's attempt to generate electricity from nuclear fission.
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I've always been fascinated by what you can learn from looking into your DNA.
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I don't want expensive gifts; I don't want to be bought. I have everything I want. I just want someone to be there for me, to make me feel safe and secure.
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Nike is obviously more sporty than Adidas. I always associate Adidas with Beastie Boys and Run-DMC.
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Comedy is a very approval-oriented field.
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I wear the same black suit. I have five of them. I pair them with a red scarf. I was wearing a red scarf when I won the first architectural competition of my career.
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Women thought me charmingly shy, and sometimes stopped at nothing to 'penetrate the disdainful shell of my fear,' as one of their number put it. Often as not, it was they who got penetrated.
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In my creed, waste of public money is like the sin against the Holy Ghost.
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A small pepperoni pizza on a tortilla is healthier than salmon teriyaki with rice and carrots.
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He who knows no hardships will know no hardihood. He who faces no calamity will need no courage. Mysterious though it is, the characteristics in human nature which we love best grow in a soil with a strong mixture of troubles.
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Some eyes want spectacles to see things clearly and distinctly: but let not those that use them therefore say nobody can see clearly without them.
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We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65!
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A real secret is something which only one person knows.
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Am I getting braver, or just getting accustomed to being terrified?
