Kevin DeYoung Quotes
The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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Throughout U.S. history, national crises have been used to suspend constitutional protections and attack basic rights. After the Civil War, with the nation in crisis, the promise of 40 acres and a mule to freed slaves was promptly betrayed.
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If we keep an open mind, too much is likely to fall into it.
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I heard that in the United States the level of baseball was the highest in the world. So it was only natural that I would want to go there, as a baseball player.
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All achievements, all earned riches, have their beginning in an idea.
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There are certainly things labels can still provide that indie artists can't. They can pave the way to radio and pay big bucks for promotion.
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If you be faithful, you will have that honor that comes from God: his Spirit will say in your hearts, Well done, good and faithful servants.
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I don't think there's any difference in my passion than when I was a young coach. I hope somebody in some way realizes I could be an asset, but we'll just wait and see.
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It's hard to see how the Copyright Office can rise to the many challenges of the 21st-century work that you do without dramatically more independence and dramatically more flexibility.
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One of the saddest things about publishing is how quickly it ages what it touches. The frenzy involved in getting books on shelves, and in putting the word out that they're there, moves at a speed that is not the speed of writing, let alone of reading.
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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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If we had this back, and in full measure; if society were infused by it, through and through, and men lived its life, and in its life, philosophy would take care of itself and the nature of our institutions would not matter.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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I am a very active audience member. I want to be moved. I want to be confronted. I want to feel.
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The Middle East is obviously an issue that has plagued the region for centuries.
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History teaches us that men and nations behave wisely once they have exhausted all other alternatives.
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Since I have been singing for so many years, I don't always need to approach a song quite so laboriously and meticulously.
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Being an economist is the least ethical profession, closer to charlatanism than any science.
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Man is a mind betrayed, not served, by his organs.
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I believe that the truth with a capital T is at the center of all the great religious teachings.
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I post pictures that I want to post and say what I want to say. If that's three times a day or three times per month then whatever.
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She tries to get a waitressing job for a while - I mean, she's looking for a while before she finds Coyote Ugly - and it's hard to get a waitressing job in the city.
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Covers matter. In my experience, a different cover can make you think you're reading an entirely different book.
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The kind of experience of humility and happiness that comes with gratitude tends to crowd out whatever is coarse, or ugly, or mean.
