Matt Redman Quotes
Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus.
Quotes to Explore
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People know things and have a remarkable capacity to act in their individual immediate interests all the time.
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We know too much, and are convinced of too little. Our literature is a substitute for religion, and so is our religion.
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I have a problem with cleaning. It's my release. I get up at 6 A.M. and clean and hoover and mop everything. Then I feel better.
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I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
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I love acting. I do it as a hobby. If I was able to have that as a career... Hopefully the fashion thing is a stepping-stone. I was so worried when I started modeling that it would hinder my chances of acting.
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I can speak a little bit of Hindi but understand every word.
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When I started at Ricci, I did street wear for very cool, young girls, but the price point was for the fourth floor of Bergdorf Goodman next to Carolina Herrera. My cool girls cannot afford it.
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I also like to garden. I grow things, vegetables, flowers... I particularly like orchids. I raise orchids.
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There's nothing interesting about seeing our characters for an hour and a half do some flashy flying in the sky and beating up on some buildings. It's boring, and people don't want that anymore. They want character, and they want story.
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I've found that people get particularly frustrated and shut down when women in fiction are disgusting or disordered.
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One of the few times I saw my mother cry was when Lennon died, and the other time was when Elvis died.
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I think my blog is fairly circumspect and elliptical. I've written personal essays, but they are short and to the point: in and out, and that's that.
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The Oculus Studio stuff is going to remain exclusive to the Oculus store and platform. That's not to say that you'll never be able to play it on other hardware, but it very much is exclusive to the Oculus platform.
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I was always ambitious - not to make money: to be published.
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The world produces enough food for everyone. Why are one billion people going hungry?
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I get to know my regular fans, and they inspire me.
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We are not without empathetic terror when we open Pascal's 'Pensees' and read, 'I am the great silent spaces between worlds.'
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When defeat is inevitable, it is wisest to yield.
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Avon invented the concept of direct marketing and direct selling beauty. And that's still very valid to us. We'll have a firm that will be around for another 114 years as strongly as it was the first 114.
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There must be a law if there is to be liberty. Try to play a piano and you will run into laws as fixed as the decrees of the Medes and Persians. But through those statutes you reach the songs, drudgery leads to delight. The law of Christ brings the liberty of Christ. Keep His statutes, and they become songs. The other side of commandment is conquest. What seems restraint to the outsider means release to you.
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New York was at the forefront of rap, so because of all the great people who have gone before me, being a rapper from Queens, I have to live up to those standards. I'm basically just a regular guy who says what he feels and likes to joke. I like long walks on the beach... and I love rap.
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I have seen quite a lot of things in life. I would not like to change anything. Because every moment of my life has taught me something.
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Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus.
