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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Character is higher than intellect. A great soul will be strong to live as well as think.
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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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I put things down on sheets of paper and stuff them in my pockets. When I have enough, I have a book.
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I never had a plan. I have to say, I'm very shocked when people start a company and say, 'In five years I want to launch a perfume, or in 10 years I want to have this.' How can you know?
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Religious people are happier.
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People are going to be way more patient listening to what I have to say now. I don't have five seconds to get their attention, I have five minutes. That's a huge window.
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I'm not fussy.
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Praise is a contradiction of pride. Pride says 'looks at me,' but praise longs for people to see Jesus.
