Joel Osteen Quotes
Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts.
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Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.
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I sort of write onstage. I'll throw an idea out there, like Home Depot, and just start talking about it.
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Reading has been the fuel of my motivation: it has changed the direction in which I have traveled, and it has enhanced my creative imagination more than any other activity I have ever pursued.
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I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.
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Once brave politicians and others explain the war on drugs' true cost, the American people will scream for a cease-fire. Bring the troops home, people will urge. Treat drugs as a health problem, not as a matter for the criminal justice system.
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There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
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Linda Hunt is so good and so sweet. She is a Tony Award nominee and won an Oscar. Pearls just come out of her mouth.
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I am not Shakespeare or Hemingway, but I have written stories on tennis that were brilliant.
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Commitment and credibility go hand in hand.
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We were these arty punks from Hollywood. I considered myself an intellectual.
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Governments and nations should sit together and resolve issues. Reforms must be reached through understanding. But others should not interfere.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.
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To be outspoken is easy when you do not wait to speak the complete truth.
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I don't think Hollywood knows what to do with me. I would imagine that when it comes to romantic comedies, my name would be pretty low down on the list.
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My career is playing the guys who go, 'Boo.' That's what I do.
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A smart phone essentially creates a dossier of your travels, and consumers have no control over who will eventually see that information.
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I would abolish the federal Department of Education and very quickly. People don't realize that the federal Department of Education gives each state 11 cents out of every school dollar that every state spends. But it comes with 15 cents worth of strings attached.
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My M.F.A was in directing, and all the films I've made, for film school and after, I've written, directed and shot.
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I think that I'm shy and I judge myself. But at the same time, I also have big contradictions. I can be sometimes sure of myself as well. I'm not always fragile and vulnerable. I can feel tough and strong.
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I want to dominate the man's world.
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You can't just give someone a creativity injection. You have to create an environment for curiosity and a way to encourage people and get the best out of them.
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The quiet life is by no means the greatest life. Some characters can only reach the highest standard of spirituality by the disturbings or displacings in the order of God's providence.
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Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That's fine, but the scripture says to pray without ceasing. And I think that means all through the day you're talking to God. Even if it's in your thoughts.
