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The real evidence for Jesus and Christianity is in how Jesus and the Christianity based on him manifest themselves in the lives of practicing Christians.

I went out there to play my game for the fun of it and never based my career around records.

In the past a leader was a boss. Today's leaders must be partners with their people... they no longer can lead solely based on positional power.

My whole career is based on taking a left turn after each film and doing the opposite of what I've just done.

One of the things that I think is such a constant in country music is that the song is so much a story. I believe it is supposed to be based around a story.

We must have a foreign policy which is based only on the long-term interests of our race, not on the interest of other races or on economic considerations or anything else.

The music we're playing now is based on my heritage, which is Russian, Romanian and Hungarian.

I would say 90 percent of Christians do not have a worldview, in other words a view of the world, based on the Scripture and a relationship with God.

Film scores are often based on short themes, and it helps if you've got some way of developing these themes and making them sometimes last 4 minutes and sometimes last 40 seconds. One ends up doing it subconsciously.

It is always incorrect to assume you can know what someone's moral convictions are based on their philosophical theories.

Affirmative action based on quotas is wrong - wrong because it is antithetical to the genius of the American idea: individual liberty.

I never took acting classes, but I knew I could do it based on the skill with which I lied to my parents on a regular basis!

Americans' addiction to sports, with the NFL at the top, is based on the excitement generated by the potential for the unexpected great play which can only happen with honest competition from great athletes.

I think people assume I only do light things because of the movies that are like 'Hairspray' and 'John Tucker Must Die.' But I think it's all just based on material that I really like and that speaks to me.

I jumped off the wheel of fortune because I wanted to simplify things. Now I've fulfilled my obligations to myself by making my new record. I'd like it to sell millions of copies, but my self - worth is not based on chart positions.

Media organizations are global. They may be based in the U.S., but they're essentially global.

I have also seen it stated that Capital punishment is murder in its worst form. I should like to know upon what principle of human society these assertions are based and justified.

The staff at the Institute will present an analysis on how asset price fluctuations and subsequent structural adjustments influence sustained economic growth, based on Japan's experience since the second half of the 1980s.

There is no significant man-made Global Warming underway and the science on which the computer projections of weather chaos are based is badly flawed.

The law is constantly based on notions of morality, and if all laws representing essentially moral choices are to be invalidated under the due process clause, the courts will be very busy indeed.

Nearly all institutions, it might be said, are based on signs, but these signs do not directly evoke things.

Not being re-signed in Baltimore was probably the lowest point, mentally, of my career. That city was the only place where I wanted to be at the time, based on everything that had transpired.

You manifest based on who you are already - so you must own the identity of the dream in order to manifest it.

Feminism is doomed to failure because it is based on an attempt to repeal and restructure human nature.

In 2008, as a matter of fact, I had people accusing me of being a Senator Obama supporter because I wouldn't slam him. I said, 'Well, consider the fact that I voted for impeachment for President Clinton, but it wasn't a personal vote. I voted based on the facts and the law and the Constitution and what we were dealing with.'

I discovered the same thing Gram Parsons did, that soul music and country music are practically identical. Based off of the same chord structures, and the songs are of heartache and loss. The main connection is they both came up in church.

One good reason for writing novels based on your life is that you have something to read in old age when you've forgotten what happened.

It's not going to be easy; Enterprise IT has spent decades growing a defensive culture based on the premise that you only get noticed when you screw up, so that must be avoided at all costs.

I know people look at me and try to make conclusions about me immediately, based on the obvious, let's say.

Science is the international language, so when we are able to convince countries that good decision-making for human health and animal health is based upon science, that's a real success story for us.