E. Stanley Jones Quotes
God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
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I think it's less common in France that a man at the age of 50 buys a Porsche and gets a young girlfriend.
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When I do interviews, I never pre-plan them at all, radio or TV.
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I have so much drive and passion for this industry and the creative arts, and I want other kids to have that kind of drive, and to have a fire in their belly for whatever industry that they want to get into.
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I don't use drugs, my dreams are frightening enough.
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Likewise nanotechnology will, once it gets under way, depend on the tools we have then and our ability to use them, and not on the steps that got us there.
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Satan, the leader or dictator of devils, is the opposite, not of God, but of Michael.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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Before a man speaks it is always safe to assume that he is a fool. After he speaks, it is seldom necessary to assume it.
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There's so much hate that we direct externally that we forget we have our own psychos. But that's the role of the satirist - you have to examine your own country and say, 'look!'
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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The government that came into power after the April 1994 elections was going to need a budget. It was drafted by our finance minister, Derek Keys, and he convinced them of the necessity to stay within the free-market principles that had been in force in South Africa for decades.
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One of the enduring problems with certain societies in the world - and this is certainly true of a lot of places in the Middle East - is that the capacity for self-governance and self-organizing just isn't there. It has to do with history.
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There comes a point in nearly every book event I've done when a little feminist revolt stirs inside the crowd.
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Singles, whatever. But selling a million albums feels like an impossible thing to do.
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In politics people build whole reputations off of getting one thing right.
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I knew I wanted to do something creative. I didn't think I'd have the luxury of doing something like that, because I didn't know anyone who had pursued anything they really adored, but I had dreams for singing or writing.
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With every film, I try and give the audiences a little more than the previous film in terms of comedy, action, drama and so on.
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The more you like yourself, the better you do at everything you put your mind to.
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I didn't expect to enter into tabloid trivia or anything like that. So I suspect my perspective and a lot of my ideas changed fairly drastically. It was also rather confusing.
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I was born to be blonde and you were born to be too. You were born to be me, I was born to be you.
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As my face got cleaner, my relationships got cleaner.
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Love is a state of being.
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God, to redeem us at the deepest portion of our nature - the urge to love and be loved - must reveal His nature in an incredible and impossible way. He must reveal it at a cross.
