Randy Alcorn Quotes
Materialism is a fruitless attempt to find meaning outside of God. When we try to find ultimate fulfillment in a person other than Christ or a place other than heaven, we become idolaters. According to Scripture, materialism is not only evil; it is tragic and pathetic.
Quotes to Explore
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Anyone can love a perfect place. Loving Baltimore takes some resilience.
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Most Americans have no clue that before there were highways, there were only waterways to get through the wilderness. If you weren't on a lake or a river, you were in a jungle.
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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A lot of times characters are combinations of people I come across in life. I people-watch a lot.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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I ain't going to sit here like, 'My neighborhood was hard, and I had to get out there and grind.' We made it hard for ourselves. We chose to stay on the streets.
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There are things about our world that almost by their nature defy our ability to comprehend them. Some people use a religious register to deal with that - they call it God and that's a way of domesticating it.
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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I have a deep compassion for the idea that it's okay to be myself. The idea that anything 'other' is bad and wrong and broken is so wildly off base.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
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I have a pit bull. He's a rescue. He's adorable.
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People assume thoughts and processes about you that may have nothing to do with you whatsoever, but they make political assumptions and assertions about who you are based on your choice of partner.
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I wanted to write stories I wanted to read, that I and my friends related to.
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Many a crown shines spotless nowThat yet was deeply sullied in the winning.
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I have a film called 'A Lonely Place For Dying,' which is the most watched film on the Internet, over 3 million hits, more than any of Hollywood's films.
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A kingdom man understands that God never said a godly life would be easy; He just said it would be worth it.
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Materialism is a fruitless attempt to find meaning outside of God. When we try to find ultimate fulfillment in a person other than Christ or a place other than heaven, we become idolaters. According to Scripture, materialism is not only evil; it is tragic and pathetic.
