R. C. Sproul Quotes
As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.
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Re-examining our reasoning is not something that has come naturally to American statesmen.
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We lived in Atlanta for a couple of years, and had a lot of fun, but my best work happens when I isolate myself. It's all about turning inward.
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My idols are Janis Joplin and Annie Lennox, who are neither of them from the typical pop culture.
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I know from growing up in the spotlight, as it were, that the most important thing is your family.
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It used to hurt me that people thought I didn't have the technique and the temperament to play Test cricket.
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My wife, Caroline Spector, and I pitched some comic ideas to various publishers back in the '80s, but nothing ever came of it.
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I was so opposed to the war in Vietnam that I initially refused President Nixon's urgings for me to go there.
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By channeling my inner heiress, I created a new opportunity for young heiresses.
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Our duties and responsibilities as human beings must be shown to be so incontrovertible that even atheists must recognize them. There are ultimate taboos.
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In South Africa, being Chinese meant I wasn't white and I wasn't black. I trained in Baragwanath Hospital, the largest black hospital in South Africa. That was around 1976, the time of the Soweto Uprising, when police fired on children and students who were protesting. I was part of the group of interns who volunteered to treat them.
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I am always dabbling in new skin routines, but it's always about moisture.
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To make a couple putts to win the Masters is just an amazing feeling.
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America slept because most Americans preferred it that way.
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I can never believe how much time and energy and money and talent and everything else is being poured into horrible ideas.
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My stepfather had a connection with The Second City and told me I should go there. I woke up in a cold sweat one night and said, 'I'm moving to Chicago.' That's how I went to Second City.
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The good thing about 'Have I Got News For You' is it's a compact show but it still gives everyone space to breathe, and everyone always gets a chance to say something if they want to. It's a very difficult show to dominate, and guests who come on and dominate always fall foul.
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I was the family alien. Both my parents are quite creative, but I was... appalling... always putting on little shows. I was rather a shy child, not a natural performer, but there was a performative edge to everything I did.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Juveniles as well as adults need to know they're going to be punished for their violent acts.
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Facebook is not the world.
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Give me a spirit that on this life's rough seaLoves t' have his sails fill'd with a lusty wind,Even till his sail-yards tremble, his masts crack,And his rapt ship run on her side so lowThat she drinks water, and her keel plows air.
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Creation sleeps! 'Tis as the general pulseOf life stood still, and Nature made a pause;An awful pause! prophetic of her end.
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I would love to be able to serve in office in some capacity with Romney as president.
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As soon as a baby enters the world, the baby is immediately introduced to pain. It is somewhat symbolic that life begins with a cry.
