John Calvin Quotes
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I found out that there was this project called the 'Great Green Wall' where they wanted to plant trees across the Sahara desert, and the idea was born that I wanted to create a support structure for that initiative.
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I've thought for a long time that my body type would have worked well in the '70s. The idea that you could be a broad-shouldered, small-breasted woman and still wear really great outfits.
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I feel like a member of any group comprised of outsiders.
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The person who goes farthest is generally the one who is willing to do and dare. The sure-thing boat never gets far from shore.
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One and one is two, and two and two is four, and five will get you ten if you know how to work it.
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Someday, I have no doubt, the dead from today's wars will be seen with a similar sense of sorrow at needless loss and folly as those millions of men who lie in the cemeteries of France and Belgium - and tens of millions of Americans will feel a similar revulsion for the politicians and generals who were so spendthrift with others' lives.
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My goal is just to make movies, whether they're big or small, that I'd like to see 10 years from now.
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I was born in Havana, Cuba and raised in Madrid, Spain. Then I moved to New Jersey.
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I can walk into a bookshop and point out a number of books that I find very unattractive in what they say. But it doesn't occur to me to burn the bookshop down. If you don't like a book, read another book. If you start reading a book and you decide you don't like it, nobody is telling you to finish it.
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Speaking much also is a sign of vanity; for he that is lavish in words is a niggard in deeds.
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I search and can't find myself. I belong in chrysanthemum time, sharp in calla lily elongations. God made my soul into an ornamental thing.
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It is equally clear that what an individual often wants for himself (such as an open highway) in the aggregate becomes a nightmare.
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A single woman who supports herself is called a career woman, while a single man who supports himself is called a playboy…Ironically, a woman who commits and becomes financially dependent is considered more mature than a man who does not commit but is financially independent.
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I've always wanted to do my own thing, and my parents allowed me to do what I needed.
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Our policy is not built on envy or hatred, but on liberty for the individual man or woman.
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In God's family, there are no outsiders, no enemies.
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I binge when I'm happy. When everything is going really well, every day is like I'm at a birthday party.
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The problem with the professional political class is they make money regardless of who wins.
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And as far as false hope, there is no such thing. There is only hope or the absence of hope-nothing else.
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I'd done table reads for my own screenplays, and I always thought they were so much fun. Why couldn't we do these for other classic screenplays and bring them to life? You can experience live theater, where you get to see plays produced by different directors and different casts, but there's really nothing like that for movie scripts.
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Now I love hoops. I'm a diehard UCLA fan, have been since my freshman year. But basketball is the '1812 Overture.' Pomp and circumstance, fireworks and cannons, lots and lots of fun, and in the end, still Tchaikovsky.
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He read at wine, he read in bed, He read aloud, had he the breath, His every thought was with the dead, And so he read himself to death.
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The happiest and most successful people I know don't just love what they do, they're obsessed with solving an important problem, something that matters to them.
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The one condition for spiritual progress is that we remain sincere and humble.
