Adrian Rogers Quotes
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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In reality, it si more fruitful to wound than to kill. While the dead man lies still, counting only one man less, the wounded man is a progressive drain upon his side.
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You don't go into politics unless you want to win.
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They talk about those All-Star Games being exhibition affairs, and maybe they are, but I've seen very few players in my life who didn't want to win, no matter whom they were playing or what for.
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I believe in the free enterprise system.
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There is nothing you can do to assuage your conscience when you commit sins. Crime is a spiritual assault on the soul.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes.
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I love samosas filled with mincemeat. My mum makes really great ones.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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Only the consciousness of a purpose that is mightier than any man and worthy of all men can fortify and inspirit and compose the souls of men.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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Truthfully, I'm pretty stuck in the '80s.
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They cannot divide us by saying that you're middle class or you're lower class.
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War criminals in the U.S. and Israel are not punished: no international court has the courage to put them on trial.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Happiness quantification sounds a bit wishy-washy, sure, and through a series of carefully administered surveys across the globe, economists and psychologists have certainly confronted a fair number of sticky issues around how to measure, and even define, happiness.
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Most people draw from the mind, not the eye. They draw the idea of a table or a face, not what's in front of them. We don't actually see the line of the jaw as a line and we don't see an eye as a perfectly outlined almond shape.
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Jerusalem is all about a very special relationship between the ground and the sky. This work attempts to bring the two together.
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If I knew that today would be the last time I’d see you, I would hug you tight and pray the Lord be the keeper of your soul. If I knew that this would be the last time you pass through this door, I’d embrace you, kiss you, and call you back for one more. If I knew that this would be the last time I would hear your voice, I’d take hold of each word to be able to hear it over and over again. If I knew this is the last time I see you, I’d tell you I love you, and would not just assume foolishly you know it already.
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I actually met one of my business partners [Neal Dodson] at the Governor's School summer program, so we've known each other since we were 15 and 16 years old, and we both ended up at Carnegie Mellon together. He started working for a producer out of school after a few years, and then we started the company together.
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You don't really know when stand-up material is TV ready; it's just at what point you're willing to let it go and not work on it anymore. I'm not sure there is a point at which you think: 'And that is finished.'
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There can be no mercy without truth.
