R. C. Sproul Quotes
The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)
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The thing is, if I try to talk about acting, I come off as moaning. But I'm privileged. I think it's all about control. Acting is vulnerable because you're not in control of anything. You have to give up a lot of your trust; it's up to somebody else what they do with what you've given them.
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Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.
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More is required of public officials than slogans and handshakes and press releases. More is required. We must hold ourselves strictly accountable. We must provide the people with a vision of the future.
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If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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What a cool job to be part of - whether it's doing lighting or acting or serving food on set. You're part of telling a story that hopefully has an essential component, and that's super exciting to me.
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I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.
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Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
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When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!
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I've never turned to anybody for advice and counsel. Even when I was a very small child, I had to stand on my feet because of the circumstances of those times, and somehow, the circumstances have remained more or less the same. I have to take my own decisions.
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Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.
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The translator's task is to create, in his or her own language, the same tensions appearing in the original. That's hard!
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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I could never sit down and say: I'm going to do an out-and-out comedy, just to prove to people I can. You've just got to do what you do. Just listen to your soul and do your art and do it for the right reasons, and then you can't fail.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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At its core, the United States is grateful, warm-hearted, full of unexpected twists and turns - not a cold and bullying prison - it's a place of infinite jest.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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I'm my own severest critic, and I realize when I make mistakes.
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I believe in my writing.
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I used to believe my father about everything but then I had children myself & now I see how much stuff you make up just to keep yourself from going crazy.
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In the 5 years, well over 60,000 American families have been broken apart by the absence of insurance because the only way for parents to get treatment for their children is to turn the custody of those children over to the State.
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What's the word to describe the thing that all of us are trying to do, which is to found or work for or invest in a company that is the winner of all winners?
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The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)
