John Calvin Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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Justice is never given; it is exacted.
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Beset by a difficult problem? Now is your chance to shine. Pick yourself up, get to work and get triumphantly through it.
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One puts off the biography like you put off death. To write an autobiography is to etch the words on your own gravestone.
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I can remember as a young lieutenant being sent into the DMZ in the divided Vietnam, from North Vietnam.
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They all hope I will go broke and I wouldn't like to cause them displeasure.
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The corporate right fires up the religious right against gay marriage and abortion and uses their votes to push their deregulation and tax cuts for the rich. It's an old trick. The House of Saud has the same arrangement with the Mullahs in Saudi Arabia.
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Assistant coaches become a little bit more buddies to the players than a head coach.
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For the first time, open source, peer-to-peer protocol developers can monetize their project on a protocol level.
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People need to take as much interest in other sports as they take in cricket, and that's where we come across a vicious cycle of performance, sponsorship, recognition, jobs and TV visibility. It's a typical chicken-and-egg story; each one is directly related to the other without an answer for what comes first.
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I would like to get another job in London or tour there. I miss my friends.
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It is television; we're making television at the end of the day. It's all smoke and mirrors, and it's all fake, but it's not, because it makes people really feel things that are real.
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I don't like it when people don't act on their words.
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I was thinking of going to college or staying in L.A. to act, and I stayed to give it a chance. I'm glad I did. I've had a lot of wonderful experiences - some horrible ones, but mostly really beautiful ones.
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I'm obsessed with making lists.
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What was critical for the maintenance of pegged exchange rates, I argue in this book, was protection for governments from pressure to trade exchange rate stability for other goals.
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A man´s taste is formed more by his culture, his profession, and the period in which he is young than by his race or politics.
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If you attack the establishment long enough and hard enough, they will make you a member of it.
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I figure I've done what I could do, more or less, and now I'm going back to being a chemical; all we are is a lot of talking nitrogen, you know...
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To be happy, we must not be too concerned with others.
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After decades spent in rewrite rooms surrounded by other shouting writers, I discovered that I work best alone. I like being in charge of my time, working out the problems according to my own rhythms and being able to nap.
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Men are not against you; they are merely for themselves.
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The young comedians always ask me, 'What's the secret for staying around?' I tell them, 'There is no secret - just stay around. Longevity is the most important thing.'
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It is the common failing of an ambitious mind to over-rate itself.
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Let that ethical philosophy therefore of free-will be far from a Christian mind.
