Kevin DeYoung Quotes
The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.
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I breeze through Twitter - I look at the mentions, the pictures, the videos.
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For someone who writes fiction, in order to activate the imagination and the unconscious, it's essential to be free.
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I've met people who didn't even know there was a Calvin Klein; they thought it was just the name of a product.
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It is right that we be concerned with the scientific probity of metaphysics.
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Being an actor means asking people to look at you. I guess I accept that. But it's a profession in which the job is to show another world and other people. You may access it through bits of yourself, and your imagination and experience, but actually, in the end, you're not playing yourself.
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A liberal to me is one who - and it suits some of the dictionary definitions - is unbeholden to any specific belief or party or group or person, but makes up his or her mind on the basis of the facts and the presentation of those facts at the time. That defines what I am.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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To understand why dictators have a problem with making peace - or at least a genuine peace - the link between the nature of a regime and its external behavior must be understood.
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There should be a minimum on the air pressure but not a maximum. Every game, they're taking air out of the footballs I'm throwing, and I think that's a disadvantage for the way that I like them prepped.
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I've been designing since I was 8. I started sketching dresses I could wear when skating. I was always involved in all aspects of skating, not just the technique, the choreography, the music, but the visual aspects, too - what I should wear.
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I went to church when I was younger, but it was never something pushed down my throat or anything, which is a good thing. I found out for myself where I belonged.
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Agatha Christie holds special personal memories for me because my mum, a television producer called Pat Sandys, had been the first person to persaude the Agatha Christie estate to put one of her stories on T.V.
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I'm blind without my glasses.
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For me, the love really flowed when I found out the baby was a boy. That's when I could finally bond, once I knew 'it' was a him.
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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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There is much good luck in the world, but it is luck. We are none of us safe. We are children, playing or quarrelling on the line.
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I know when you're in the business of cover sports, you look for 60-minute games and a result. It's never that simple.
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Sometimes you have to be okay with what you are to the world, where you are in the world, and make the most of it.
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I'm amazed every time I come back to Vancouver at how much it's changed. You go away for a month and there's three more skyscrapers.
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I push for what I think can be the best, and if I feel they're not going for the best, it kills me.
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Those who play with the devil's toys will be brought by degrees to wield his sword.
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Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life.
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The mystery of the Christian life is that Christ expects us to flee sin and the devil, but does not expect us to rid ourselves of either on this side of glory. Repentance is a way of life, and so is the pursuit of godliness. I wish every Christian could be reminded of these two things.
