Steven Curtis Chapman Quotes
I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.
Quotes to Explore
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I consider myself a blue-collar actor, just chugging away.
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The possibilities for creation and insight are endless. We're constantly collecting more data, and it's starting to be very relevant to our lives.
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When you're doing a car chase movie, you're sitting in car waiting for places or grips or stuff for quite a while.
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I had long had an instinct about there being a role for me in a creative industry. Maybe I didn't listen to that voice as much earlier on, but when it had become a deafening sound in my head I realised I had to go and explore it.
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Japanese businesspeople and companies are lacking in individuality.
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It sounds kind of stupid, but I've never not wanted to be a musician. It's been inside me since I was little so I don't know what else I would do.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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I've had five weddings but if I'm really honest and if I count significant de factos... I've had nine husbands... which sounds appalling but when you consider I started at 18 and I'm 65 it's not so bad.
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In 1995, the Chinese government picked a 6-year-old child to succeed the Panchen Lama, the second highest figure in Tibetan Buddhism.
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While there's capitalism, there'll be socialism, because there is always a response to injustice.
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Every training session, I try to simulate the conditions similar to where I am racing.
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I learned from an early age that my heritage, my love for people, and my desire to be a vehicle that can be used through my voice, that my expressions and actions can transport a person to experience a scene from the past, present and future.
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The interests of the Soviet Union are in controlling highly developed countries and having the benefit of their economies so that they can run their own inefficient empire.
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Ambition is the last refuge of the failure.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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There is an eagle in me that wants to soar, and there is a hippopotamus in me that wants to wallow in the mud.
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The best preparation for tomorrow is doing your best today.
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Writing is finally play, and there's no reason why you should get paid for playing.
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Militarism is in direct competition with people's needs for food, health care, and environmental protection.
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I feel like one thing that a lot of creative people go through is that they feel like they don't have the right to be creative or to put their stuff out there. I'm glad that blogging from a young age kind of got that out of the way for me.
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I started working for the 'NY Observer' when I was 33. After I had been writing for them for about a year and a half the editor said, 'Your stories are the most talked about stories in the 'Observer'; you should have your own column.'
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I think the family is the place where the most ridiculous and least respectable things in the world go on.
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One hour spent in spinning should be an hour of self-development for the spinner.
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I think we all want to know that if our lives don't turn out the way we imagine, there's still a purpose.
