J. M. Roberts Quotes
I knew immediately what was happening. I knew, oh my God, he's hit me on the back of the head with a gun, I'm going down.
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I'd just come through cancer in 1995. Which really changed my soul. It really did. It changed me... It made my faith alive - and real. God's real.
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I was born in Bradford, a city in the north of England that God forgot about. A place where most people never leave, but if they do, they certainly never go back.
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DJ Premier, this guy is like a god, a walking god. Guru, he put it down legendary.
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
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You want to know why there's a Texas Rangers? Well, here's the answer. You know how the six-gun came around? Well, here's the answer. You want to know why Mexicans allowed Americans to settle Texas in the first place? It was fear of Comanches.
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I was attending the University of Alberta. I was going to be a high school teacher, like my parents. I failed - no, I didn't fail a class, I just barely passed. I really didn't try. It was Canadian history, through the plays of the time. My God, those were boring plays.
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What a liberation to realize that the 'voice in my head' is not who I am. 'Who am I, then?' The one who sees that.
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I believe we are created in the image of God for a particular purpose, and I believe that with all my heart.
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Don't look for approval in what everyone else is doing; look for approval from Almighty God.
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I doubt God would want to touch America's tax code, since it is already located in the third rung of Hell.
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If God should desire to raise us to the position of one who is an intimate and shares his secrets, we ought to accept this gladly.
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I'm honored and blessed by God to be in the sport I love, and I want to accomplish all the goals I set in the sport of boxing - to be successful and make history.
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Freedom is not empowerment. Empowerment is what the Serbs have in Bosnia. Anybody can grab a gun and be empowered.
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Know that any and all thoughts that you have regarding your own skills, interests, and inclinations are valid. To reinforce the validity of your thoughts, keep them private. Tell yourself that they're between you and God.
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Certainly it is a blessing to have three beautiful kids who are all healthy. God put them here for me to nurture and bring them up and try to keep as close to right as I can. So it's a blessing. It's a big responsibility, but at the same time it's an honor.
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God is a spirit. A spirit is as much matter as oxygen or hydrogen.
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You matter to God, and every detail of your life matters to Him.
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus; but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level.
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In ancient African cultures, a young man was not considered a full member of the tribe, an elder, a man. He couldn't marry and he couldn't own land until he had killed a lion. It was symbolic.
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When I see something, I know why something's funny or seems to be funny. But in the end it's just another picture as far as I'm concerned.
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The Koch brothers spent millions against me.
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When I found out I was pregnant, my mother said, 'Don't separate your life, the life that you're going to make with this child, from the things that you are and what you want to do.'
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What would happen if one woman told the truth about her life? The world would split open.
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I knew immediately what was happening. I knew, oh my God, he's hit me on the back of the head with a gun, I'm going down.
