Adoniram Judson Quotes
Perhaps the secret of living a holy life is to avoid every thing which will displease God and grieve the Spirit, and to be strictly attentive to the means of grace.
Quotes to Explore
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When I was 13, I had these episodes where I could just see the world without any words attached to it, without any associations. It was a little bit spooky. A lot of people might have even thought it was pathological. I thought it was interesting.
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Physical bravery is an animal instinct; moral bravery is much higher and truer courage.
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From my experience and understanding, I believe money follows name and fame, while recognition calls for a huge amount of sacrifice. To get something, you have to lose something. That's the rule of life.
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Textbooks are going to remain a key part of learning. They just need to go digital, become more interactive and they need more analytics.
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It's always cool to go to different places and see what's really out there in the world.
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To know all is not to forgive all. It is to despise everybody.
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I've always loved both writing and songwriting. The journey is fascinating to me.
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Symbolism is alright in 'fiction,' but I tell true life stories simply about what happened to people I knew.
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One of the pleasures of getting older and making a living the way you want to is that your social circle becomes rarified, and the people who enter have been vetted.
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I'm ready for a different America.
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Even as a kid, I was a businessman. I figured out that if you plucked all the berries off my neighbor's tree and smashed them up, they made a Nickelodeon Gak-type consistency. I sold them to all the neighborhood kids and made stacks of quarters. Of course, the berries were poisonous, and I got in all types of trouble.
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I'm not in this sport to say a guy can beat me.
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I still love records, and I've been fortunate that my parents bought me a record player so I didn't just have my vinyls to stare at!
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If you set out to write an adjective novel, you're setting out to write a mediocre novel; your allegiance is to the adjective, not to the story, and then that just sucks all the joy right out of it.
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The village I come from is the most ruthless, lawless land one can encounter.
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Two records put me over the top with hip-hop. One of them was 'Planet Rock,' and the other had no lyrics – it was called 'Numbers,' from a group called Kraftwerk. Every kid in the 'hood in New York and New Jersey was popping, locking, and breaking to that record. It was the hottest track on the street at the time.
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I hate wearing makeup because I am just too lazy to take it off at night.
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When you become a parent, you really care that you get that right, and you care about nothing else.
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Really great entrepreneurs have this very special mix of unstoppable optimism and scathing paranoia.
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While the CDC is focusing on how our enemies could attack us, our military is focused on who may attack us.
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All of us would like for everybody to be the kind of person we want them to be.
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I feel like, in general in my work life, my main goal has been to just be in a situation where I'm not bored with my job. That's been the entire principle. Got my wish.
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Perhaps the secret of living a holy life is to avoid every thing which will displease God and grieve the Spirit, and to be strictly attentive to the means of grace.
