You love all your characters, even the ridiculous ones. You have to on some level; they're your weird creations in some kind of way. I don't even know how you approach the process of conceiving the characters if in a sense you hated them. It's just absurd.


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The main rule to me is to honor God with your life. To life a life of integrity. Not be selfish. You...
JOEL OSTEEN
Faith is about trusting God when you have unanswered questions.
JOEL OSTEEN
I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you...
JOEL OSTEEN
There's nothing better than good sex. But bad sex? A peanut butter and jelly sandwich is better ...
BILLY JOEL
Micronutrient-poor foods, like pasta, sugar, and soda, don't just give you empty calories and ma...
JOEL FUHRMAN
Excess dietary salt is most notorious for increasing blood pressure. Americans have a 90 percent lif...
JOEL FUHRMAN
The human diet, for millions of years, did not contain any added salt - only the sodium present in n...
JOEL FUHRMAN
The key to excellent health and longevity is to eat a high ratio of micronutrients to macronutrients...
JOEL FUHRMAN
Consuming mushrooms regularly has been associated with decreased risk of breast, stomach and colorec...
JOEL FUHRMAN
Sodium is an important mineral that is essential for proper functioning of the human body - however,...
JOEL FUHRMAN
If you want ideal health, you need to overcompensate and eat an excellent diet.
JOEL FUHRMAN
Eating a high-nutrient diet actually makes you more satisfied with less food, and actually gives the...
JOEL FUHRMAN
If you eat the standard Western diet that most people eat in the modern world, it's quite likely...
JOEL FUHRMAN
The human body is a miraculous self-healing machine, but those self-repair systems require a nutrien...
JOEL FUHRMAN
Onions, along with leeks, garlic, shallots and scallions, make up the allium family of vegetables, w...
JOEL FUHRMAN
Most weight loss diets center around portion control, which is just trying to eat smaller amounts of...
JOEL FUHRMAN
Seeds and nuts are indispensable for cardiovascular health. The protective properties of nuts agains...
JOEL FUHRMAN
Healthy people eating healthy food should never need to take an antibiotic.
JOEL FUHRMAN
Certainly adding fats in the form of oils is fattening and unhealthy, but naturally fat-rich foods l...
JOEL FUHRMAN
What you eat matters. It influences the quality of your life.
JOEL FUHRMAN
High salt intake is a risk factor for osteoporosis because excess dietary sodium promotes urinary ca...
JOEL FUHRMAN
Reducing dietary salt is not only important for those who already have elevated blood pressure - lim...
JOEL FUHRMAN
The goal of my diet-style is eating for optimal health and longevity. What greater benefit could the...
JOEL FUHRMAN
Cutting back on calories is not the answer to successful weight loss and successful health... you ha...
JOEL FUHRMAN
I mean we all need a second chance sometimes.
JOEL OSTEEN
We were old sinners - but when we came to Christ we are not sinners anymore.
JOEL OSTEEN
God didn't make a mistake when He made you. You need to see yourself as God sees you.
JOEL OSTEEN
People respond when you tell them there is a great future in front of you, you can leave your past b...
JOEL OSTEEN
God can cause opportunity to find you. He has unexpected blessings where you suddenly meet the right...
JOEL OSTEEN
So we got there at 6 a.m. We'd be shooting by 6:45. We wouldn't break for lunch, we'd ju...
JOEL SCHUMACHER
In my house, I'm not allowed to shout at anybody. It's very strict. It's a very Christia...
JOEL COURTNEY
Without cigarettes, I would be doing heroin, probably, on a daily basis.
JOEL MADDEN
We can move water easily with plastic pipes. We can move shade around with nursery cloth like a tink...
JOEL SALATIN
We control health and pathogenicity by complex multi-speciated relationships through symbiosis and s...
JOEL SALATIN
It's very cliched to go, 'You're not punk.' We don't care if we are, and we don&...
JOEL MADDEN
One of the main reasons that we lose our enthusiasm in life is because we become ungrateful..we let ...
JOEL OSTEEN
Beanie and Cecil was the first cartoon I remember watching and I think there are analogies.
JOEL HODGSON
Why do musicians give so much time to charitable causes? The most humanitarian cause that we can giv...
BILLY JOEL
Don't forget: cruciferous vegetables must be chopped, crushed, or chewed well for maximum benefi...
JOEL FUHRMAN
Omega-3 fatty acids are essential nutrients that we must get from our diets because our bodies canno...
JOEL FUHRMAN
Have you listened to the radio lately? Have you heard the canned, frozen and processed product being...
BILLY JOEL