Joel Osteen Quotes
You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.
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I don't know if I should care for a man who made life easy; I should want someone who made it interesting.
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I like writing about places, about people and environments. When I create a world, it lets me go in and define the details of that world.
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Escapism makes a lot of intuitive sense - whisk people away from their cares with stories of a better life.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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I've got a 12-year-old grandson who, when he was 3 years old, before he could say many other words, could name the different kinds of dinosaurs.
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I have often heard that the novel is dead. But I see novels produced, I don't know how many a week, in France. I have the impression it's carrying along quite well.
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No one ought to be under any illusion that Cheney privately thinks himself a failure.
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With Nine Inch Nails, it's all Trent Reznor. So when we get a new record from Nine Inch Nails, it depends on what side of the bed Trent's waking up on and what he's been eating lately and what he's been into. Because he's preparing the whole meal.
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When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.
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I'm still learning how to do things - like lining my eyes? Forget it.
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The truth, it is said, is rarely pure or simple, yet genetics can at times seem seductively transparent.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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Animals are companions on this planet, not necessarily our feedbags.
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Urban conservationists may feel entitled to be unconcerned about food production because they are not farmers. But they can't be let off so easily, for they are all farming by proxy.
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By helping readers understand these mechanics, I hope they will appreciate why freedom is for everyone, why it is essential for our security and why the free world plays a critically important role in advancing democracy around the globe.
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I'm not very technically minded. I mean, I don't know how to do e-mail on computers.
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There is no Negro problem. There is no Southern problem. There is no Northern problem. There is only an American problem. And we are met here tonight as Americans - not as Democrats or Republicans-we are met here as Americans to solve that problem.
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And fighting the battle of life is fighting against fearful odds, too. There are giants and dragons in this nineteenth century, and the golden casket that they guard is not so easy to win as it appears in the story-books.
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God has been God in my life ever since I can remember.
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When a man keeps beating me to the draw mentally, he begins to get glamorous.
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Being an artist doesn't just mean you have a song. That doesn't make you an artist. The word 'artist' means so many different things, and I feel like to be a real one, you really have to do it all. The people that I think of as artists - Tyler the Creator, Childish Gambino, Kanye West - are doing the most.
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You're going to go through tough times - that's life. But I say, 'Nothing happens to you, it happens for you.' See the positive in negative events.
