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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• There is no sense in making a film that no-one will go and see, just to create a perfect, but useless, work of art.

  

  Carlo Ponti
  • Work
  • Art
  • Perfect

• 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.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • Up
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• Example is the school of mankind, and they will learn at no other.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • School
  • Learn
  • Example

• 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.

  

  Barbara Jordan
  • People
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• If North American musicians would only know how uncomfortable life is for European musicians.

  

  Zubin Mehta
  • Life
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  • Know

• What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.

  

  Napoleon Hill
  • Believe
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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.

  

  Laura Dern
  • Job
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• I'd never written a novel before, and I wrote a novel, and that turned out OK.

  

  Rainbow Rowell
  • Never
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  • Wrote

• 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.

  

  Warren G
  • Work
  • Brother
  • Chance

• When the audience enjoys your performance, you feel like a magician who is doing magic. It's a great feeling!

  

  Kailash Kher
  • Great
  • Feeling
  • Magic

• 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.

  

  Indira Gandhi
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• Everything is tennis for me, it's my career and it's entertainment, but it's also a business.

  

  Venus Williams
  • Business
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  • Tennis

• Southeast Asia was home for much of my childhood, but I moved to Hawaii when I was in high school.

  

  Tammy Duckworth
  • School
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• They probably do have an Asian Barbie.

  

  Iris Chang
  • Asian
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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!

  

  Manuel Puig
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• Most people want security in this world, not liberty.

  

  H. L. Mencken
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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.

  

  Paddy Considine
  • People
  • Art
  • Soul

• A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.

  

  Iain Banks
  • Science
  • Culture
  • Reading

• Comic books and radio were my escape. I even remember 3-D comic books where you put on the red-and-green glasses and Mighty Mouse would punch you in the face. It was the literature of the day for kids my age who were too bored with listening to 'Peter and the Wolf' on the record player.

  

  George A. Romero
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• No doubt, there are those who believe that judges - and particularly dissenting judges - write to hear themselves say, as it were, 'I, I, I.' And no doubt, there are also those who believe that judges are, like Joan Didion, primarily engaged in the writing of fiction. I cannot agree with either of those propositions.

  

  William J. Brennan, Jr.
  • Believe
  • Writing
  • Doubt

• I hated the fact that I had to read 'Moby-Dick' as a senior in high school.

  

  Nathaniel Philbrick
  • School
  • High
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• Most things come from inside; they're intuitive. That's the way I am.

  

  Andres Iniesta

• The issue of faith is not so much whether we believe in God, but whether we believe the God we believe in. (p.35)

  

  R. C. Sproul
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