Edward McKendree Bounds Quotes
Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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Actors are greedy. They can never be satisfied. I want praise as well as box office returns.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
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Humility is the gateway into the grace and the favor of God.
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The good name of the United Nations is one of its most valuable assets - but also one of its most vulnerable. The Charter calls on staff to uphold the highest levels of efficiency, competence and integrity, and I will seek to ensure to build a solid reputation for living up to that standard.
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A very intimate sense of the expressiveness of outward things, which ponders, listens, penetrates, where the earlier, less developed consciousness passed lightly by, is an important element in the general temper of our modern poetry.
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I don't like to take a lot of stuff since I'm really sensitive to medications.
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Women are the strong people in this world, not men. I think TV is finally catching up with that reality, and thank God.
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The tech genie is out of the bottle; you can't put it back in.
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The media is an ally when it comes to showing the truth about terrorist groups. Attacking the media will not produce a more compliant citizenry. It will produce a more alienated, suspicious and disenfranchised public, one more likely to chafe under a government's attempts at control, all to the benefit of terrorist groups.
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Human writing reflects that of the universe; it is its translation, but also its metaphor: it says something totally different, and it says the same thing.
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I'm not Ang Lee who knows so much about western market and the taste of western audiences.
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As a child, my mother told me lots of fairy stories, many her own invention. She, too, tended to reverse the norm.
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Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
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My greatest concern is that the emergence of this technology without the appropriate public attention and international controls could lead to an unstable arms race.
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Admitting the force of these contentions, nevertheless, the custom of meeting together in public assembly for the consideration of the most serious, the most exalted topics of human interest is too vitally precious to be lost.
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Work for Swaraj fails to appeal to us because we have no music in us.
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There's no more important consumer product today than a cell phone.
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Prayer is the practice of drawing on the grace of God. Don't say, "I will endure this until I can get away and pray." Pray now - draw on the grace of God in your moment of need. Prayer is the most normal and useful thing; it is not simply a reflex action of your devotion to God. We are very slow to learn to draw on God's grace through prayer.
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The moral life presents itself as the response due to the many gratuitous initiatives taken by God out of love for man.
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Christianity is not rationalism, but faith in God's revelation. A conspicuous, all-important item in that revelation is the resurrection of the body.
