John Calvin Quotes
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I think every job I do, I sort of look for the challenge in. I mean, that's why we do this job. It's not, you know, obviously not for the money or for the fame, it's for, I guess finding out more about yourself.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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I loved the idea of somebody literally fighting for love.
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What makes me really happy is a walk in the English countryside. A nice sunset, that British countryside - it means I'm home.
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To destroy is always the first step in any creation.
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To compare Olympic sport with cricket would not be fair. Years back, cricket was a sport only for the classes, and we will also have to make other sports masses from classes like cricket.
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On September 11 last year international terrorism entered a new dimension.
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Ben Henderson, he had never been knocked out before fighting me.
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My home has to feel airy and bright with natural light. I don't switch on lamps until it is literally black outside.
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What I love about 'Midnight Train' is that it's a song about a journey, but the music actually takes you on that journey. It feels like you're moving through the whole song.
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You measure a democracy by the freedom it gives its dissidents, not the freedom it gives its assimilated conformists.
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I want to live in Kolkata; I don't want to live in Europe - I can't write there. I write in Bengali, and I need to be surrounded by the Bengali language and culture.
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I know as I'm taking my dying breath, the ambulance guy will ask me why they cancelled Action.
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The scene was attempted a second time, up on top of the fort, and cameras didn't even roll. Michael, though he wasn't admitting it, wasn't sure how to shoot the scene.
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The voter does not vote only on one issue, the voter votes on a multiplicity of issues.
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I look to find the heart and soul of people, of my characters. I look for the truth of them and the truths about life that are presented through them.
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I don't find intimate scenes more difficult than other scenes.
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In fighting the debt crisis, E.U. countries have enhanced co-operation and carried out reform with tremendous courage. This is laudable.
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Inching one's way along a steep cliff in the dark: on reaching the highway, one breathes a sigh of relief. Just when one can't take any more, one sees the moonlight. Beauty that seems to infuse itself into the heart: I know about that
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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
