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 is not enough for me to win. My enemies must lose.
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It's not hard to stand behind one's successes. But to accept responsibility for one's failures... that is devishly hard!
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My dad taught us that there's no greater distance than that between first and second place.
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The book, as it stands, seems to me to be one of the most frightful muddles I have ever read, with scarcely a sound proposition in it beginning with page 45, Hayek provided historical background up to page 45; after that came his theoretical model, and yet it remains a book of some interest, which is likely to leave its mark on the mind of the reader. It is an extraordinary example of how, starting with a mistake, a remorseless logician can end up in bedlam.
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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.
