E. Stanley Jones Quotes
When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.
Quotes to Explore
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If you have a movie coming out, and people are talking about you, the amount of scripts will build.
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With my gift, I can pretty much write a song out of anything.
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But an innovation, to grow organically from within, has to be based on an intact tradition, so our idea is to bring together musicians who represent all these traditions, in workshops, festivals, and concerts, to see how we can connect with each other in music.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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What's the most important thing in the world? It's love, and I look at that as an energy, not a sentiment.
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We are constantly competing with the monsters from the id.
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Ain't no place like New Orleans. It's one of kind.
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I just think that if one is going to preach nonviolence and one is going to advocate for nonviolence, one's standard should be consistent.
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Too often, older women are seen as victims, but I know lots of formidable women who have marvellous jobs as well as a full erotic life, and children and friends and family.
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Men fall in love with their eyes - they like what they see - and women fall in love with their ears - they like what they hear!
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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The man who can make others laugh secures more votes for a measure than the man who forces them to think.
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I get to meet different directors and different people.
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For the last 3 years, we have celebrated National Nurses Week. Beginning on May 6, we will once again have the opportunity to truly commend the nursing community for their contributions to our national health delivery system.
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Plot is a framework on which to drape other things. So once that's working, I can just let it go and do all the stuff that I love - 'Trojan horse' it. There are so many great YA heroines, and that's fantastic, but what about the emotionally complex boy out there? That's who I tend to write about.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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I once went into a meeting, and every woman put her a million-pound bag on the table. Then I'm there with my tote bag and anorak. And I'm like, well, I'm still the most important person in the room right now.
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The beauty of jazz is that it's malleable. People are addressing it to suit their own personalities.
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It's possible to watch 'Gone Girl' and feel that you have seen something terribly bleak. But it's also possible to receive it as good news. Any powerful articulation of the need for change is also a testimony to the possibility of change.
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...a sense of defeat the years have brought back to him, after what seemed for a while to be triumphs.
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I realized that filmmaking is an eminently scalable act. No matter how big or how small, there's joys and stresses that will all scale themselves magnificently to fit the production.
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I'm not technical. When I listen to music, I gravitate more toward the sonic aspect of it. The technical stuff of it, I get bored with it. These long solos? OK, already. You know your scales, big deal. I know it, too, but I don't want to do that.
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Time is what death needs to grow people in.
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When the Christian doesn't find joy on account of his happenings, he can always find joy in spite of them.
