R. C. Sproul Quotes
In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.

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Some foreigners with full bellies and nothing better to do engage in finger-pointing at us. First, China does not export revolution; second, it does not export famine and poverty; and third, it does not mess around with you. So what else is there to say?
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Nevertheless, there is another threat on the horizon. I see this threat in environmentalism which is becoming a new dominant ideology, if not a religion. Its main weapon is raising the alarm and predicting the human life endangering climate change based on man-made global warming.
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I am not an enemy of the Negro. We want him here among us; he is the only laboring class we have.
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I act for love. I give it my all. I would probably still do it even if I wasn't paid at all. But in terms of equal pay, I need to be paid the same as the guy who has equal billing with me. Otherwise, I won't do it. Because if you accept less, you're just letting everyone else down and continuing the cycle.
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I hardly ever stretch the canvas before painting.
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We love those who know the worst of us and don't turn their faces away.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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Everyone asks me if I'm the princess or if my brothers beat me up. The younger ones I can deck pretty easily. With the older ones, it's harder.
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Hairdressers are a wonderful breed. You work one-on-one with another human being and the object is to make them feel so much better and to look at themselves with a twinkle in their eye.
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I've had horrible days where you wake up with a zit, and you have to film, and it's terrible.
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Most people want to become movie stars and I just want to be in the business. I already was a star. If I get the part of a lifetime and it blows up, then that's wonderful. But if the acting doesn't work, fine. I'll just be a producer. And if the producing doesn't work, fine. I've got a lot of other stuff.
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How do Ferrari know what I'm doing next year when I don't know what I'm doing next week?
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However old-fashioned and right-wing this may sound, the American genius for language lies in understatement, in saying things simply, pointedly and quickly, and in making new and clean and swift what otherwise might be ponderous, round and slow.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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I never publicise in advance what I'm going to be singing because I never quite know until I start. I often change my mind halfway through. I sometimes throw in stuff about politics or Shakespeare or do songs in Yiddish.
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That I am not a member of any Christian church is true; but I have never denied the truth of the Scriptures, and I have never spoken with intentional disrespect of religion in general, or of any denomination of Christians in particular.
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No matter how rich you are, you can't get healthy air.
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I do read all my work aloud as I'm working - this has made it a little hard to adjust to my husband's retirement. I can shout the shouty parts if I'm alone in the house, but of course, I feel a fool if someone is there to hear me.
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Contemporary culture is like the weather - we have to be open to it. I don't like the way it is dismissed or closed down.
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Each culture might lend its own dialect, but above all that is the language of music itself, and it doesn't care about politics or boundaries.
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Reach, and all that other stuff, doesn't play as big a part in MMA as it does in boxing. Guys don't really fight with their length all that much, because they have to worry about the takedown or kicks. They have to worry about so many other things that they can't just fight real tall.
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It is always our own self that we find at the end of the journey. The sooner we face that self, the better.
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In the culture of pluralism...the only thing that cannot be tolerated is a claim to exclusivity.