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.
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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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I feel like a lot of comedians do have that deep, dark thing. I have my stuff, but I don't go to that dark place. Things are just way too good.
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I think, in terms of corporate philosophy, I've always believed that you've got to treat people in a very very egalitarian manner in the sense I like to treat people on a one-to-one basis. And I like people to take on a lot of responsibilities because I think with a sense of responsibility also comes a sense of purpose.
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Do I envy Madonna's body? Yes. Do I thank God that she has it? Yes! If you're fifty-something and you look like Madonna, and you put a lifetime's work in the way you look, then flash it to the world!
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If you're 15 and you tell someone a secret, they can put it up on Facebook. If you make a mistake, someone films it on their mobile and puts it up on YouTube. When you're 15, you deserve privacy.
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People who believe in 'universal health care' show remarkably little interest - usually none - in finding out what that phrase turns out to mean in practice, in those countries where it already exists, such as Britain, Sweden or Canada. For one thing, 'universal health care' in these countries means months of waiting for surgery that Americans get in a matter of weeks or even days.
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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.
