E. Stanley Jones Quotes
The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.
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I'm not a Republican.
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Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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We share a wonderful, I think, physical or geographical heritage.
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Once you're a mom, always a mom. It's like riding a bike, you never forget.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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Every quirky girl doesn't have to be the best-friend character. It's a very limiting and self-fulfilling prophecy. People only write things that will get green-lit, so they write to those stereotypes.
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
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It was all devastating. I'd never dealt with losing anyone close to me, and I didn't know where to put it in my life. I was very young then. Buddy taught me so much in such a short time.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind on, but what you can't keep your mind off.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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There are a lot of competitive girls in the industry, so you just find the ones who share your mentality.
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Vegetarians in general don't like me.
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I have been learning English on the road since I started when I was 15, so it is a slow process but making some progress. Now I think I am much more comfortable with my English. However, it is difficult, still, when I speak about something that is not tennis.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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Imagine if Beethoven had a tape recorder. Then you'd know exactly what he meant. Maybe he meant 'Da da da da' instead of 'Boom boom boom boom!' Who knows?
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People are scared to make something that doesn't look like another film that made a lot of money. It means we get 'Four Weddings And A Funeral' made again and again.
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The love of God invades me, the peace of God pervades me, the will of God persuades me, and I am wholly His.
