Randy Alcorn Quotes
Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.
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Wearing nice lingerie makes me feel really glamorous. I love to splurge on that.
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People take things so seriously.
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Most actors, if you ask them if they play guitar, they'll say they played guitar for 20 years, but what they really mean is they've owned a guitar for 20 years.
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Raising the minimum wage seems to all economists to, at the very least, fail to 'raise' employment, and we'd all like to see better inclusion of low-skilled workers into good-paying jobs.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I like to wear clothes that I will wear when I am an old lady.
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Usually, English personalities are difficult; they don't take criticism easily.
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Every time a blast happens, people ask, 'But why would someone do this?' Weirdly, it hasn't been answered well anywhere - neither in fiction nor non-fiction.
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The chief product of an automated society is a widespread and deepening sense of boredom.
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Once we understand just how to control genes, we have the potential for spinal cord regeneration, bone regeneration, and so on. It might also give us plumper chickens.
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I don't normally vote. I'm lazy and I never bought into the 'Every vote counts.'
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I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
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At Pixar, we do a million versions of the movie, and every one of them goes through their awkward teenage phase where it's terrible and doesn't make sense, and we just keep working on it.
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If you want, you can have a coffin made out of cardboard or wicker or papier mache. There's one like a seed pod, or you could buy one that doubles as both a bookcase and a coffin. During your life, you stand it in your living room, and then after you die, the books are taken out and your body put in their place and the whole thing buried.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Obviously, you have quieter years than others - you don't go jumping out of a plane every day.
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I just picked up a lot of classic-rock, melodic influence from my mom, music that she listened to, like 10,000 Maniacs, Led Zeppelin, REO Speedwagon and Yes.
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Part of the satisfaction of tattling surely comes from showing oneself to adults as a good moral agent, a responsible being who is sensitive to right and wrong. But I would bet that children would tattle even if they could do so only anonymously. They would do it just to have justice done.
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Children begin by loving their parents; as they grow older they judge them; sometimes, they forgive them.
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I'm not going to make movies that tell children, "You should despair and run away".
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I'm trying to get my next job as a biracial action hero.
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I discourage passive skepticism, which is the armchair variety where people sit back and criticize without ever subjecting their theories or themselves to real field testing.
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Teach your children gratefulness. Do all you can to deliver them from our culture's poisonous entitlement mentality.
