John Calvin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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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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You don't win as a party unless you become a bigger party.
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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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My first joke was about a company called Five Star Parking that was all over Philadelphia: 'Who's reviewing parking lots?'
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One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.
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I am indebted to my wife Coretta, without whose love, sacrifices, and loyalty neither life nor work would bring fulfillment. She has given me words of consolation when I needed them and a well-ordered home where Christian love is a reality.
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You definitely feed off the people around you, and your man is one of the people you talk to the most. So you kind of help each other and keep each other strong. It's important.
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The gospel is not a doctrine of the tongue, but of life.
