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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The 'Hercules' role just kind of came to me, but I had a lot of fun trying something new.
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America is addicted to wars of distraction.
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I can remember only a few of the strange and curious words now dead but living and spoken by the English people a thousand years ago.
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I think a lot of girls look up to me because I'm a strong woman.
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If thou wouldst be happy, bring thy mind to thy condition, and have an indifferency for more than what is sufficient.
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I don't know what's with me and the 'of God' shows. It's hard to tweet about, because I guess 'God' triggers some kind of filter.
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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)
