Danny Gokey Quotes
Your future is only big enough for you to walk through, not for you and your past to walk through.
Quotes to Explore
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Imagine a world in which no writer has written a literary novel in sixty years. Imagine a place where not a single person has read a book that is truly about the character at its center.
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A 2014 survey found that 74% of law-enforcement agencies reported antigovernment extremism as one of the top terrorist threats. Just 3% of those agencies viewed the threat from Muslim extremists as severe.
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I love adventure sports. And, I love cooking.
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I tell young actors to do anything that will sustain them.
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I think that's always very valuable: to keep the mind open to receiving all sorts of information, which can then be used in my work, but also just as a human being.
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My dad's name is Vernon and my mom liked the initials, V. V. My sisters and I got named Victoria, Valerie and Vincent so we'd be V. V.'s, too. But, then when you start getting pets' names that start with a 'v,' it's a little embarrassing.
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The people of Iran have had to endure repressive laws that have stifled their freedom of speech and religion for too long.
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Gone are the days when the upper classes were terrified of the angry mob wanting to smash their skulls and confiscate their properties. Now their biggest enemy is the army of lazy bums, whose lifestyle of indolence and hedonism, financed by crippling taxes on the rich, is sucking the lifeblood out of the economy.
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What is a farm but a mute gospel?
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Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
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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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Everyone is just nicer to prettier people.
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I didn't choose literature. Literature chose me. There was no decision on my side.
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A Libertarian society of unfettered individualism spreads its benefits to virtually everyone - not just those who have the resources to seize political power.
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The charms of women were never more powerful never inspired such achievements, as in those immortal periods, when they could neither read nor write.
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Ford was warm and friendly. He wouldn't embarrass a Cabinet member.
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Motherhood has been an exercise in guilt.
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I love my life and my mistakes and my triumphs - all of it.
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There are many different ways of categorizing news. It doesn't have to be just war and famine and serious politics.
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I just want to get a Ph.D. in love.
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Our challenge for the future is that we realize we are very much a part of the earth's ecosystem, and we must learn to respect and live according to the basic biological laws of nature.
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I'm a very direct person just generally. I don't use a lot of words unnecessarily. I try to get to the heart of the issue, address it and go on to the next thing.
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I think if you compare nation-building in other situations: after the war in Europe, building up stable nations from the collapse of the Soviet Union, look at Afghanistan; I think that is a reasonable prospect.
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Your future is only big enough for you to walk through, not for you and your past to walk through.
