Saint Basil Quotes
As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.
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In my life, I wanted to feel tall. I wanted to be somebody. I wanted to be tall as the Sears Tower. I wanted to be on top of the Sears Tower. I wanted to be as strong as the Sears Tower feels.
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I'd love to play Moon Knight. I don't know if anybody's doing a Moon Knight animated series any time soon.
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Writing is literally transformative. When we read, we are changed. When we write, we are changed. It's neurological. To me, this is a kind of magic.
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Women drive box office.
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I feel like I'd have a different approach to football now after doing music.
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When you argue with your inferiors, you convince them of only one thing: they are as clever as you.
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An interview has become such a confrontational thing. It makes you very defensive.
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Some musicians I know are incredible fathers. Like Keith Richards. A fantastic dad.
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I had formed a black movement, so I would speak for the Trotskyist movement and then walk about a hundred yards to where the black movement was speaking.
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Fairy tales opened up a door into my imagination - they don't conform to the reality that's around you as a child. I started reading when I was three and read everything, but I wanted to be an actress.
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Someone is sitting in the shade today because someone planted a tree a long time ago.
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I try to stress to my children that buying something never leads to true happiness.
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I am not the archetypal leading man. This is mainly for one reason: as you may have noticed, I have no hair.
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Technology determines the possibilities of society. It doesn't matter whether you start out from a fascist state or a communist state or a free-market state.
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The problem of suffering is: why is there the suffering we know?
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People come up to me and tell me how I changed their life and I've inspired them. And they tell me their stories, and that keeps me going.
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I got a granite chin.
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At its best our age is an age of searchers and discoverers, and at its worst, an age that has domesticated despair and learned to live with it happily.
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Everything really belongs to God, and man has no right to assume that he can, at will, exploit God's bounty.
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Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural characteristics of landscapes and structures to produce a life supporting system for city and country, using the smallest practical area.
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I think I need to be married. Having a wife and family makes some sense out of all that I do, because I can't make any sense out of 20,000 adoring fans watching me for two hours.
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The strongest argument in favor of the gospel is a loving and lovable Christian.
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The only way the corporate Body of Christ will fulfill the mission Christ has given it is for individual Christians to have a vision for fulfilling that mission personally.
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As the pilot of a vessel is tried in the storm; as the wrestler is tried in the ring, the soldier in the battle, and the hero in adversity: so is the Christian tried in temptation.
