J. C. Ryle Quotes
Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
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There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.
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When you like something and you're pretty good at it and you can make a living doing it, you don't ask why. You just count your blessings and go with it.
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As you know with the Arab Spring, there were no dividends.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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Most people treat the present moment as if it were an obstacle that they need to overcome. Since the present moment is life itself, it is an insane way to live.
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We all should face some failures in life and learn from them. We should accept it and move on.
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Africa is poor because its investors and its creditors are unspeakably rich.
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I'm one of those foolish people who believe the glory days of the record industry aren't behind us. They're actually ahead of us.
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But I think we need the international market.
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I'd rather be strongly wrong than weakly right.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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Law school and summer camp are the two experiences that inform pretty much all I do.
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America is essentially an entrepreneurial culture: the sizzle is the steak, because, after all, if you buy the sizzle, the steak comes with it. Canada's, in contrast, is a primary-producing culture: we'll buy the steak and hope to get a little sizzle with it. But we know we can't eat sizzle.
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I never desperately wanted to be a jazz drummer. If anything, I was motivated a lot by fear. Fear of the conductor, fear of the future.
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I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
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Pilates is great.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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The trouble with music appreciation in general is that people are taught to have too much respect for music they should be taught to love it instead.
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East Hampton happens to have been the first place in the world where I was a star, a real star with a star pasted above my name on the dressing-room door.
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We really only have two choices. Play it safe, or take a chance. For me, pulling back because of fear has always made me feel worse.
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Better to confess Christ 1000 times now and be despised by men, than be disowned by Christ before God on the day of Judgment.
