Adoniram Judson Quotes
I suppose they think me an old man and imagine it is nothing for one like me to resign a life so full of trials. But I am not old - at least in that sense; you know I am not. Oh, no man ever left the world with more inviting prospects, with brighter hopes, or warmer feelings - warmer feelings.
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I can enjoy anywhere, and I can leave it. Life is about moving on.
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I have always been an avid reader of chemical literature, eager for what is new.
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In those days, even as a boy, I watched some people that I knew were living way beyond their means.
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I've been trying to pinpoint what keeps drawing me back to the Gulf of Mexico, because I'm Canadian, and I can draw no ancestral ties.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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Four hostile newspapers are more to be feared than a thousand bayonets.
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My experience is that's rare - that you have a script that is... what they call 'film-ready.'
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I write a book a year while creating TV and film projects. And being a writer isn't just writing: I have to chase down paychecks and manage foreign tax payments. I maintain a vibrant relationship with readers and bloggers. And when it comes to Hollywood, I typically have to have fifteen business meetings in the hopes that one leads to a project.
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When we write about Auschwitz, we must know that Auschwitz, in a certain sense at least, suspended literature. One can only write a black novel about Auschwitz or - you should excuse the expression - a cheap serial, which begins in Auschwitz and is still not over.
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Some people like having eyes upon them and I don't.
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I come from a background where money has never been an issue.
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If I go to a baseball game, I hear 'Shoeless Joe,' but otherwise, I hear 'toe pick' five times a day. No matter how many more movies I make, that'll be on my gravestone.
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I think that most people who hire me to do a remix just want it to work in a nightclub, whereas when I'm writing my own album, I don't have to worry so much about 2 A.M.
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I went to Sunday School and liked the stories about Christ and the Christmas star. They were beautiful. They made you warm and happy to think about. But I didn't believe them.
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If only we could pull out our brain and use only our eyes.
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I used to buy records in high school. Mainly dancehall: Super Cat, Buju Banton.
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I've been to war, and it's not easy to kill. It's bloody and messy and totally horrifying, and the consequences are serious.
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It had been suggested to her that the flaw lay not in the universe but in herself.
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Or ever the knightly years were gone, with the old world to the grave, I was a King in Babylon and you were a Christian Slave. I saw, I took, I cast you by, I bent and broke your pride... And a myriad suns have set and shone, since then upon the grave, Decreed by the King in Babylon, to her that had been his slave. The pride I trampled is now my scathe, for it tramples me again. The old remnant lasts like death for you love, yet you refrain. I break my heart on your hard unfaith, and I break my heart in vain.
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Visually speaking, nothing calls Shakespeare to mind like Hamlet holding Yorick's skull.
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My childhood is in my brother's house, and I like to visit there and be reminded.
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I suppose they think me an old man and imagine it is nothing for one like me to resign a life so full of trials. But I am not old - at least in that sense; you know I am not. Oh, no man ever left the world with more inviting prospects, with brighter hopes, or warmer feelings - warmer feelings.
