"I admire runners older than I - they are now my heroes. I want to be like them as I grow older."

-- Frank Shorter

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“I define the American dream as the ability to imagine a way that you want your life to turn out, and have a reasonable hope that you can achieve that.”

Source : "Great Expectations, And Some Hope Of Meeting Them". "Morning Edition" with Renee Montagne, www.nhpr.org. June 28, 2012.
“Christ is no Moses, no exactor, no giver of laws, but a giver of grace, a Savior; he is infinite mercy and goodness, freely and bountifully given to us.”
“I used to watch my grandmother make fancy, Julia Child-style beef bourguignon. And growing up in New York City, I was exposed to many cultures. I experimented with Puerto Rican and Jamaican food.”
“I much prefer making music to talking about it. There's something visceral about instruments and voices that transcends words.”

Source : "A Musician's Diary". Essay by Mark Heard. "Bearing the Mystery: Twenty Years of IMAGE". Book by Gregory Wolfe, 2009.
“Whenever you find a preacher who takes the Bible allegorically and figuratively...that preacher is preaching an allegorical gospel which is no gospel. I thank God for a literal Christ, for a literal salvation. There is literal sorrow, literal death, literal Hell, and, thank God, there is a literal Heaven.”
“I was born at a bad time for Spain, but a really good one for cinema.”
“I'm still ready to go to the moon, if they'll take me.”
“The wall that protects you from rejection also keeps out love and success. Accept your abundance.”

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