E. Stanley Jones Quotes
There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.
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I write in a small office at home.
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My father was a lawyer.
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You can go down the list of great artists and kind of understand that they are products of their environment. Whether it's U2 or Henry Rollins or myself or Johnny Lydon, they're gonna be products of their environment.
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I always look at the work of fashion designers as if they were art.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back.
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I know exactly what it is like to fight against the odds and to overcome adversity.
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Only a completely unintelligible God can be said to be absolutely good and absolutely powerful yet tolerate the world as it is.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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We've got a dictatorial president and a Justice Department that does not want Congress involved. Your guy's acting like he's king. His dad was at a 90 percent approval rating and he lost! And the same thing can happen to him!
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I was really influenced by Joan Didion and Pauline Kael; they were both at the height of their influence when I was coming into my own as a reader.
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I know it's a guy thing to chest bump, but me and my dancers chest bump before hitting the stage. Not too hard though...ouch!
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I'm happy that I'm alive. I feel like someone coming back from Vietnam, you know; I'm sure that later on I'll start killing people in a square somewhere, but right now, I just feel happy to be alive.
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When I wrote the eight fairy tales that appear in 'Horse, Flower, Bird' I was working toward a completely new form of artistic expression, trying to create a new kind of tale that also felt vintage: innocent and childlike, but haunted. I tried to write a picture-less picture book.
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You're spoilt as an actor if you are in that small percentage that works regularly.
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Wait a minute, I'm a fan of yours; you can't be a fan of mine!
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I think sometimes my humor is extremely dry, and a lot of times I would say things that I thought were very funny but... I have a reputation of - people think of me as a very fundamentalist, humorless fellow.
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In its conception the literature prize belongs to days when a writer could still be thought of as, by virtue of his or her occupation, a sage, someone with no institutional affiliations who could offer an authoritative word on our times as well as on our moral life.
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The gospel points us upward to a God who gave himself for us, backward to the price he paid for our sin, and forward to what he’s making us into.
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When I first started painting candyland imagery, I was looking for the best possible metaphor for everything that is pleasure, desire and insatiability.
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I don't think there is another person in America that wants to tell this story as much as I do.
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When a man says he had pleasure with a woman he does not mean conversation.
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There are two ways to be rich - one in the abundance of your possessions and the other in the fewness of your wants.
