E. Stanley Jones Quotes
I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?
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If my child had prejudice in his head, I'd be ashamed. I would see it as my failure as a parent.
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I'm not a Democrat.
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We have no quarrel with a policy that seeks to support human rights.
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I am only interested in bad taste if I can enjoy a gruesome tango or watch a movie that makes me cry.
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When I started as a child actor, my father didn't tell me anything.
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Divorce isn't one-sided, and I am by no means perfect. Becoming accountable for my role in the relationship was very empowering.
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I have a lightsaber at my front door for home protection. I have an 800-watt electric skateboard that I use to run errands in my neighborhood. It can go about six, seven miles, so depending on how much time I have, and how much I have to carry home, I'll take it really far. I love that thing.
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Labor has a proud history of tackling discrimination and introducing important social reform.
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As David Cameron realizes, we do not have time for the tweaks and increments favored by institutions built to resist change.
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I'd only been in the business three or four years, but I told myself that someday I'd like to be Mort Janklow.
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Once you achieve a certain level of success or fame, it becomes really difficult to go against type.
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I started playing the violin when I was 5, but by the time I was 12 or 13, I wasn't really liking it.
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Only in South Africa could you have a change in government without civil war. If there wasn't the depth of love and caring among our people, this would not have happened.
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I love serving in the government. I love serving in the Senate.
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The sign of a good society is where talent is respected.
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Complexity. In general individual decision makers must be assumed to have multidimensional values which attach nonmonetary subjective cost or value to (1) the process of making and executing individual or group decisions, (2) the end result of such decisions, and (3) the rewards (and perhaps behavior) of other individuals involved in the decision process.
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Every man thinks meanly of himself for not having been a soldier, or not having been at sea.
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Nu shu means women's writing. And it was a secret writing system that was invented by women, used by women and kept a secret by women in one very remote county in China for a thousand years. It's the only language that was invented and used by women to have been found anywhere in the world.
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If politics were like sports, we could ask Israel to trade us Benjamin Netanyahu for Barack Obama. Of course, we would have to throw in trillions of dollars to get Israel to agree to the deal, but it would be money well spent.
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I like to play any character that allows me the freedom to explore it and teach the audience something they didn't know, and show them a journey they identify with … or be inspired, or moved. Anything that touches someone's heart is important for me.
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I grew up in a small town in Ireland and didn't know any actors. I never thought it was a viable job. It wasn't until I was on 'The Tudors' that I realised it was a possibility.
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Somewhere, a sparrow is singing in B minor.
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I never said the way of Christ is easy. Are you prepared to let go of everything He would not approve?
