Derek Webb famous quotes

Last updated: Sep 5, 2024

Never oversimplify yourself by using a single word or category to describe who you are. Take the time to tell your story.
-- Derek Webb

#Stories #Categories #Single Word
The best thing that could ever happen to any one of us is that all our sins would be broadcast on theÂ 5 o' clock news.
-- Derek Webb

#Would Be #News #Sin
Are we defending life when we just pick and choose lives acceptable to lose and which ones to defend?
-- Derek Webb

#Life #Choose Life
My first allegiance is not to a flag, a country, or a man...not to democracy, or blood; it's to a King & a Kingdom
-- Derek Webb

#Country #Kings #Men
I have a lot of friends and family that have suffered because of the church's judgment; my best friend in the world is gay. I felt a lot of people around me drawing lines in the sand, and that year I decided: I don't want to draw lines and have to be on one side or the other, but if someone's going to push me to one or the other side of the line, I'm going to stand on the side of those being judged because that's where I feel Jesus meets people.
-- Derek Webb

#Jesus #Gay #Years
Paste magazine has served as a tremendous window into culture for my house. I can think of no other publication that provides such critical yet entertaining thoughts on music, movies, books and gaming as Paste. My mailbox would be a dark place indeed without it.
-- Derek Webb

#Book #Dark #Thinking
At a time when everybody in our culture is talking about tolerance, it seems that tolerance has the highest premium of any response - "If we just tolerate one another..." But my feeling is: Who wants to be tolerated? People don't want to be tolerated; they want to be loved.
-- Derek Webb

#Talking #People #Tolerance

I don't recall having any self-awareness about the intricacy of my stories.
STORIES WE TELL is one of the boldest and most exciting films Iâ€™ve seen in the last six months, and the kind of experience that has the power to alter your perception of the world.
What's so great about television. You're able to tell a long story, where you couldn't really do that in a film because you have to tell a story in an hour and a half or two hours.
I think with anything where you delve into the back story of an artist, it kind of explains their work more intimately.
There are basically two categories of music: Metal and bullshit.
And also, Sergio Leone was considered in Italy a director of category B, not a big director.
To me, everything in the world comes down to two categories: "about-ness" and "is-ness". "About" represents or describes something, while "Is" is the thing itself.
You canâ€™t just lump things into two categories. Things arenâ€™t that simple.
I have noticed before that there is a category of acquaintanceship that is not friendship or business or romance, but speculation, fascination.
If only I was as eloquent as Demosthenes, I would have to do no more than repeat a single word three times.

Derek Webb famous quotes

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