R. C. Sproul Quotes
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We probably wouldn't worry about what people think of us if we could know how seldom they do.
Olin Miller -
I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
Laura Benanti -
I have worked hard and learnt that I have to make a decision - whether I am going to conform and protect myself or not. I chose not to.
M. Night Shyamalan -
I would take plays and I would cut out all the other dialogue and make long monologues because I felt the other kids weren't taking it as seriously as I did.
Sally Field -
The cool thing about writing is that there is really never a typical day. Sometimes I get a rhythm going and head off to work every morning and come home at night. Sometimes I'll write for two days straight and then be utterly blank for the next two.
Patricia Briggs -
I like the dark undertow of grime, and it gets me aggressive. You need that aggression.
Adam Peaty
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When I come to a design decision, people know that is that.
Carlos Ghosn -
Religious fundamentalists in Bangladesh have always argued for a ban on my books.
Taslima Nasrin -
If I have anything, it's tenacity.
Hal Sparks -
I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
Harrison Ford -
The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
Manuel Puig -
Audiences are very willing to be taken somewhere, and to ask an audience beforehand what it wants is probably, I think, a mistake. Much better you should tell them what you want and hope they agree with it.
Harold Prince
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I have often said that just as the French revolution, for instance, understood itself through antiquity, I think our time can be understood through the French revolution. It is quite a natural process to use other times to understand your own time.
Ian Hamilton Finlay -
There's always a spattering of people who see Hanson who were influenced by classic '60's and '70's rock and roll. In a lot of ways, we're sort of the anatomy of a '70's rock band if you examine what we do: white guys who grew up listening to soul music from the '50's and '60's.
Taylor Hanson Hanson -
As educators and policy makers, it is important to demonstrate for parents the connection between high levels of student participation in assessment and system accountability - ensuring the success of every student.
Kate Brown -
If I go out in the open ocean environment, virtually anywhere in the world, and I drag a net from 3,000 feet to the surface, most of the animals - in fact, in many places, 80 to 90 percent of the animals that I bring up in that net - make light. This makes for some pretty spectacular light shows.
Edith Widder -
The journey matters as much as the goal.
Kalpana Chawla -
Fate is nothing but the deeds committed in a prior state of existence.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
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In England, there is a dividing line between artists and illustrators, who are thought inferior to painters. Well, that's absolute rubbish. Some of the most creative work is being done in children's books. In Japan, everything is art. They don't say painting is better than ceramics or dress design.
Brian Wildsmith -
Leo Bloom: Actors are not animals! They're human beings!Max Bialystock: They are? Have you ever eaten with one?
Mel Brooks -
Without the hope of posterity, for our race if not for ourselves, without the assurance that we being dead yet live, all pleasures of the mind and senses sometimes seem to me no more than pathetic and crumbling defences shored up against our ruin.
P. D. James -
Lucretius and his tradition taught Shelley that freedom came from understanding causation.
Harold Bloom -
DNA is like a computer program but far, far more advanced than any software ever created.
Bill Gates -
Any conception of a god that is less than sovereign is an idol and no god at all.
R. C. Sproul