Adoniram Judson Quotes
I esteem it the crowning mercy of my life that not only the chief ends I contemplated on becoming a missionary are attained, but I am allowed to see competent, faithful, and affectionate successors actively engaged in the work.
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As you get older, challenges arise that you aren't prepared for, but what got me through it was music.
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My favorite film is probably the finale - 'Deathly Hallows: Part 2'.
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I am always the one who is responsible for anything bad that happens in Indian cricket. Everything that happens is because of me.
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This invisibility, however, means that the opportunities for creative research are infinite.
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I'm probably a natural uncle. I can take the kids out and have fun with them and look after them, and I can be Mr. Popular. But actually having to do the grind? That stuff just doesn't appeal at all.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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In my novels, there are twelve ancient 'memory tools,' all now lost. Each of the 'Reincarnationist' books revolves around a different tool.
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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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There is a tendency by a lot of officials to hide behind the king. And it's about time that officials take their responsibility and are responsible in front of the people.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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No formal course in fiction-writing can equal a close and observant perusal of the stories of Edgar Allan Poe or Ambrose Bierce.
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There's an energy in an urban core that you just don't get anywhere else.
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When a show has gotten as much attention as this one, everyone wants to join in with something to say.
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Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.
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I had a peace all day. I knew it was a tough golf course. I probably prayed more the last three holes than I ever did in my life.
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History's lesson, of course, is that attempts to suppress free expression have merely confirmed the caricaturists' original critique of heavy-handed and objectionable actions of overreaching governments.
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I always say: To be well dressed you must be well naked.
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I kind of always struggled writing in Malay, because Malay is such a beautiful language. And it gets really hard, you know, if you want to make it into a song. You have to make it sound beautiful, use the right words.
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A book sometimes seems to impose a through-line to life that real life doesn't actually have.
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I was dumbfounded by the stupidity of the Watergate break-in.
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After a good quality dinner one will be able to forgive anybody, still one's own relations.
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I have always thought it was important to maintain some connection for myself to what it takes to make a song work by myself, to put a song across to an audience by myself.
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During our stay in London for the first time I was able to establish personal contact with some of the organic chemists, whose work I knew and admired from the literature. I found them most gracious and helpful.
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I esteem it the crowning mercy of my life that not only the chief ends I contemplated on becoming a missionary are attained, but I am allowed to see competent, faithful, and affectionate successors actively engaged in the work.
