Craig Groeschel quote: "For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple: Rule #1: You're only allowed to think of worst-case scenarios. Rule #2: You're never allowed to win this game. You can only lose. Rule #3: The more you play, the greater your losses."

Extreme measures bring extreme results. If you want a normal life, do what normal people do. If you ...
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He desperately wants you to know Him. So many people believe in God, but they don't really know Him....
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Many people may be heartbroken, but not enough to take action.
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For many of us, it's just one thing standing in our way of completely following Jesus.
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If you allow your enemy to steal your faith, he can destroy your life and ultimately kill your relat...
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It's time to get healed. It's time to confess. Falling for the bait doesn't make you the worst perso...
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In order to honor God with your wealth, you first have to admit that you are rich. Most people won't...
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In God's economy, you may even harvest a crop in places where you didn't plant seed. When you're gen...
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If you've messed up big - like me, like Isaiah - congratulations! You're at the top of God's talent-...
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Sex joins two people spiritually and emotionally as well as physically. This is its purpose-to bond ...
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If you had a friend you refused to talk to, eventually you couldn't keep calling that person a frien...
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His famous, soul-stirring "I have a dream" speech will still give you chills and break your heart to...
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If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so yo...
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Or maybe they just accept that it's wrong in God's eyes, although not in their own, and they'll worr...
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When you give, you will be blessed. When you give, it will be given back to you.
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The entire time we playing, the current had gently moved us downstream with the tide. We were drifti...
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I can promise you this: If you really, sincerely, genuinely want God back, He hasn't moved. He's sti...
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She said, "Right now, while we have this time, I'm not going to do any of that other stuff. I'm goin...
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Your prayer for someone may or may not change them, but it always changes YOU.
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No matter what I feel, I hold the assurance that God never leaves me.
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We are far from perfect but willing to be different.
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God's blessings, however, aren't always bigger, better, and beautiful. In fact, I truly believe that...
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Let God create in you His masterpiece. He will make you truly different and joyfully weird.
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No matter what sin you find yourself in, turn to God. Let Him forgive, heal, and restore.
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Wise people put as much distance between themselves and sexual temptation as possible. They not only...
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Instead of drifting away from God, you'll be firmly anchored, able to swim against the tide, offerin...
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Don’t worry when you meet opposition for obeying God. Worry when you don’t have opposition, beca...
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Normal people attempt countless goals with limited success. Weird people focus on just one God-given...
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What is it that makes you so angry, bothers you so deeply, that you're compelled to act?
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How can you tell when the devil is lying? His lips are moving.
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And as you come to know Him, you're becoming like Him. The more you are like Him, the more different...
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Remember, to get what you've never had, you must do what you've never done. But to get what you once...
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When it's clear that we have a commitment to God that comes before anything else in our lives, most ...
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The Bible consistently and directly indicates that when we give generously, we're serving, honoring,...
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Just because opportunities present themselves doesn't mean you should accept every one of them. It's...
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If you want your ministry to have ‘it’, more important than anything else we’ve discussed, you...
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If we're honest with ourselves, most of us know the one thing we lack.
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Sunday is God's day, and he was committed to honoring it. Just because he was in Paris to compete in...
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To get rid of a spiritual problem, we need to pull it up by its spiritual root. To pull up roots, we...
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Wisdom is all about the simple, often tiny, obvious things, done consistently, one at a time.
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Young people today are deeply passionate and crave authentic life based on truth. They're hungry to ...
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He's for you and wants to help you be the person He created you to be.
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God put you on earth with a divine assignment- something prepared in advance for you to do. I've fou...
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Not only did he unleash his emotions through rivers of tears, but for several days he denied his bod...
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On the other hand, when you do something for someone else, there's often a greater, deeper satisfact...
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What matters is the one thing I do know for certain: God is with me.
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She asked God to use this experience to help my heart break forever for those who don't know Christ.
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God decided that this time in history was perfect for you to glorify Him and make an eternal differe...
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There's nothing cool about turning against God. There's nothing fun or cute or right about compromis...
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Fueled by faith and passion for our true priorities we're going to drive against traffic in order to...
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If the seed doesn't get planted, it can't become a toxic thornbush. We must guard our minds and our ...
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But God does give us responsibility, and it takes biblical faith to do those things in dependence on...
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David cuts through all the many needs, wants, and desires that may have been bouncing around inside ...
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He is the God who loved you so much that His Son stripped Himself of all heavenly glory to live as a...
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We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different.
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Inspire them to want so much more than what's normal.
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When you feel this burden, you might be frustrated, wondering why no one else cares as much as you d...
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He puts us here to make an eternal difference.
He puts us here to show everyone around us how m...
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Training is an active, dynamic process lived out daily in all areas of life- not a rote exercise in ...
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In fact, if our kids are successful in every normal way, they can still miss God's main mark.
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He knows every hair on your head, and he sees every tear you shed.
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Paul's one thing was committing to forget about the past, to forge ahead into the future.
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Without someone speaking into your life and keeping you on track with the things you believe, you ha...
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You care because God gave you this unusual blessing: a burden to make a difference.
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If you pour everything you have into this life, this world, which is temporary and fading, you're je...
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Better a little with God than a whole lot without Him. Better to have fewer houses, cars, appliances...
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The answer isn't more time but a greater awareness of the time we have.
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I realized that day that blessings come in a variety of shapes, colors, and sizes.
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Love keeps no record of wrongs, but bitterness keeps detailed accounts.
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If you catch yourself wondering why you want more of the world and you're not satisfied with God, it...
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Normally, we're never satisfied.
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You've never really know what it's like to trust God to provide for you today, because you've got to...
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More important, it's because God is our only true source of life.
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Rather than worrying about work, schedules, and deadlines, I felt at peace with God. He was in contr...
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We live aware of God moment by moment. He is not part of our lives; He is our life.
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The fear of God is the only cure for the fear of people.
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You release the pain of the past and press on. It's a new day, and God is doing a new thing. He want...
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If you're a follower of Jesus, He has given you abundance so that you can care for others, not so yo...
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And because God has entrusted you with such riches, you can use these resources to make a profound d...
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I'm asking God to give you a Popeye moment. A moment when God blesses you with a divine burden: some...
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If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God.
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What one promise do you need to claim? Find it. Don't give up. Cling to it.
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Don't settle for a normal life. Not when you can enjoy the wonderful weirdness of being who God crea...
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Weird makes you truly sexy in a way the world can never know.
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Instead of having just good intentions that are me-centered,you can have God intentions that are God...
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But don't ever forget: adultery is also biblical grounds for forgiveness, healing, and restoration.
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But I can please God
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Weirdly enough, the more we give away, the richer we become.
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I've heard it said, "If the Devil can't make us really bad, then he'll try to make us really busy.
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Face your fears by remembering the power of God's cleaning truth. To change the way you are, change ...
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When something small loudly demands all our attention, its noise often drowns out the whisper of wha...
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While some consider God's standards as too confining, a true believer sees them as loving and freein...
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If you delegate tasks, you create followers, if you delegate authority , you create leaders
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Most of all, we remain focused on our Rock that never moves.
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You don't believe He knows what's best for you: that rest will make you more productive and more spi...
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The best thing you can do for your kids is to show them God working in you on a daily basis.
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You must long for God more than normal. You must be willing to live to give, not live to gain.
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I'm asking God to bless you with something that unsettles you, disturbs you, and upsets you.
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When I'm focusing on what's important to God, I live differently. I invest my time differently.
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When you reach out to God humbly, you'll find that He's already reaching out to you.
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I'm convinced normal people miss the majority of God's blessings because they're too busy to notice ...
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You have enough time to do everything God wants you to do.
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Rather than continuing on the normal sexual path toward pain, emptiness, and idolatry, you can allow...
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our lives. First, we’ll look at practicing the power of being present. Which sounds a lot cooler, ...
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But just as your body needs sleep, your soul needs time to rest in God. To learn more about Him. To ...
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Perseverance must finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything” (J...
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We reflect God's character the most when we give freely of ourselves with no strings attached, no se...
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Godliness with contentment is rare.
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Normal people live distracted, rarely fully present. Weird people silence the distractions and remai...
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To be fully alive, you need time with God to recharge.
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If we're honest, most of us are doing okay.
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Knowing when and how to rest is knowing when and how to acknowledge your limitations and your depend...
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So if it seems like you're doing something different from what everyone else is doing, and if someti...
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He blesses us so we can be different.
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If you want to be different, if you want to be better than normal, then you must live differently.
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Be different.
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Where your money goes, there your heart follows.
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Wherever you are, be all there.
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Most of us are living at a pace that is not only unsustainable; it's also unbiblical.
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Most of us think we're too busy or too important to rest for a day.
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You can't build a foundation of sin now for a life of purity later.
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Renew your mind by washing it with truth: God's Word.
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Pause for a moment and prayerfully consider your response: What breaks your heart?
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My friends don't think they're rich, because they know someone who's richer.
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Be who God called you to be. Live for the an audience of ONE.
CRAIG GROESCHEL

They said I would never live. I lived. They said I would never think. I think. They said I would nev...
BENEDICT J. GROESCHEL

Mice are very difficult to do front on, but they have nicely human little hands and feet, and whiske...
HELEN CRAIG

A decent beard has long been the number one must-have fashion item for any fugitive from justice.
CRAIG BROWN

The way you think influences the way you feel, and the way you feel determines how you act.
CRAIG SAGER

Darwin didn't walk around the Galapagos and come up with the theory of evolution. He was explori...
CRAIG VENTER

When you are doing a show, it can get really dull. You are sitting so long while they set up the lig...
YVONNE CRAIG

Everybody in their own imagination decides what scary is.
YVONNE CRAIG

I have had strange animals as pets all my life. I was shy growing up, and shy people tend to interac...
YVONNE CRAIG

I haven't collected memorabilia. I am not a person who lives in the past.
YVONNE CRAIG

My life is a monument to procrastination, to the art of putting things off until later, or much late...
CRAIG BROWN

There's nothing wrong with procrastination. Or is there? I'll leave it to you to decide, but...
CRAIG BROWN

One rose says more than the dozen.
WENDY CRAIG

One in four children being victimized? That's about seven children in every classroom. That'...
WENDY CRAIG

The only thing that is obscene is censorship.
CRAIG BRUCE

I like big thinkers who, no matter how big their vision, can sit down and talk to me about hour-to-h...
PAIGE CRAIG

Medicine, you have to take it. A vitamin is nice to have, but honestly, you can skip it.
PAIGE CRAIG

If people make a lot of introductions, should they get recognized for it? I've never seen a scor...
PAIGE CRAIG

Anytime something eats too much of my life, I kill it.
PAIGE CRAIG

L.A. has always had a ton of creative business people, but tech has always been trumped by Hollywood...
PAIGE CRAIG

I've built employee perks programs before and it's impossible to manually build a program th...
PAIGE CRAIG

Customers are using BetterWorks in a number of creative ways to reward and incentivize employees.
PAIGE CRAIG

When you read about the best places to work, it's never about salary; it's about catered lun...
PAIGE CRAIG

The Bay Area definitely knows the pain of competing for, and retaining, top talent. Offering interes...
PAIGE CRAIG

As an HR Manager, you don't have to build a top-down perks program. You decide how much you want...
PAIGE CRAIG

When you're doing a startup, life is not all roses and rainbows, like you see on Instagram, and ...
PAIGE CRAIG

Consumers are increasingly feeling that they are being taken for a ride.
LARRY CRAIG

I'm for anything that lets people come here to work legally. There are more protections for work...
LARRY CRAIG

We came to Iraq to liberate them and to make our world a safer place.
LARRY CRAIG

I urge calm and sensitivity to the fundamental civil liberties of our country.
LARRY CRAIG

Censure is a limp noodle across the wrist of the president. I think the way we vote on the articles ...
LARRY CRAIG

Congress has a responsibility to make sure our taxpayer dollars are being spent responsibly and effe...
LARRY CRAIG

Agreements are always the product of time and place.
LARRY CRAIG

The simple truth is, the short-term solution is for the FDA to allow more importation of safe vaccin...
LARRY CRAIG

We do not take away the powers of surveillance. We do not take away the right and the power of the g...
LARRY CRAIG

Breast cancer deaths in America have been declining for more than a decade. Much of that success is ...
LARRY CRAIG

Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to...
LARRY CRAIG

Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the Fi...
LARRY CRAIG

We were the only black family in an estate with 1,000 white families. Liverpool being quite racist i...
CRAIG CHARLES

Broadcasting was something, I don't want to say it came easy, but it's something I'm com...
CRAIG KILBORN

Over the years, the idea seems to have grown up that brightly coloured flowers are vulgar, and that ...
CRAIG BROWN

Since my own genome was sequenced, my software has been broadcast into space in the form of electrom...
CRAIG VENTER

Being on your own would be sad, sick and weird. I don't trust myself. I need that balance.
DANIEL CRAIG

I didn't want to do a zoo show. I didn't want to do a study of someone with mental illness. ...
DANIEL CRAIG

I'm definitely not satisfied about my career. I don't know how you can be, it's the very...
DANIEL CRAIG

Any voices or fantasies, he lives with. Those are his everyday life things.
DANIEL CRAIG

Look, I'm in love. I'm very happy.
DANIEL CRAIG

There's a conscious decision to everything I do.
DANIEL CRAIG

As soon as someone tells me: 'You're rather sexy,' I wish I could disappear. If somebody...
DANIEL CRAIG

It's not like I was trying to be sexy but I had to get fit because I had to be able to do stunts...
DANIEL CRAIG

When you read a novel, your own imagery is the most important. It's what makes reading such a wo...
DANIEL CRAIG

Suits are looked at more now as a business thing which is kind of a shame. If you're not wearing...
DANIEL CRAIG

Revenge doesn't stop.
DANIEL CRAIG

There's always going to be someone with a bigger toy than yours.
DANIEL CRAIG

You've got to live your life, you've got to enjoy it.
DANIEL CRAIG

I've always loved to dress up a bit and show off.
DANIEL CRAIG

I stopped worrying about being desired a long time ago.
DANIEL CRAIG

I have never played a role in which someone's dark side shouldn't be explored.
DANIEL CRAIG

I don't care what other people are doing.
DANIEL CRAIG

I just felt that you can't have a character fall in love so madly as they did in the last movie ...
DANIEL CRAIG

You need to impress me, outwit me, compete with me? Go ahead, knock yourself out, I have no problem ...
DANIEL CRAIG

I've always retained my privacy, but now I protect it even more.
DANIEL CRAIG

Sexiness, particularly in movies, is the chess game in the 'Thomas Crown Affair'. It's, ...
DANIEL CRAIG

I'm not trying to be macho, I promise you.
DANIEL CRAIG

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60,...
DANIEL CRAIG

I've never really had a desire to do Shakespeare. For me, it's just too many lines.
DANIEL CRAIG

I have run with the bulls in Pamplona. I have raced with Mario Andretti in Indianapolis. I have clim...
CRAIG SAGER

As fighting in Iraq intensifies, President Bush delivered his supplemental war budget to Congress. T...
CRAIG KILBORN

People think genes are an absolute cause of traits. But the notion that the genome is the blueprint ...
CRAIG VENTER

Everyone must know by now that the aim of Scrabble is to gain the moral high ground, the loser being...
CRAIG BROWN

I've had every chemo in the alphabet, most of them more than once. Some of them that aren't ...
CRAIG SAGER

I know it's surprising, but there is a generation of people who haven't seen a Bond movie. T...
DANIEL CRAIG

When I was 19, I celebrated my first Valentine's Day while being in a relationship. I was so exc...
CARLY CRAIG

After doing comedy for a while and knowing how hard it is to do physical comedy right, I learned how...
CARLY CRAIG

I think I've definitely found a niche working in comedy, but dramatic films are what brought me ...
CARLY CRAIG

I graduated from Second City Los Angeles. It helped me tremendously, not only in my roles in films b...
CARLY CRAIG

For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple:

Rule #1: You're only allowed to think of worst-case scenarios.

Rule #2: You're never allowed to win this game. You can only lose.

Rule #3: The more you play, the greater your losses.

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For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple:Rule #1: You're only allowed to think of worst-case scenarios. Rule #2: You're never allowed to win this game. You can only lose.Rule #3: The more you play, the greater your losses.

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For years I played the what-if game. Maybe you're acquainted with this pastime. The rules are simple:

Rule #1: You're only allowed to think of worst-case scenarios.

Rule #2: You're never allowed to win this game. You can only lose.

Rule #3: The more you play, the greater your losses.