John Calvin Quotes
God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.
Quotes to Explore
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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If we desire a society in which men are brothers, then we must act towards one another with brotherhood. If we can build such a society, then we would have achieved the ultimate goal of human freedom.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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The fashion industry certainly has its obscene sides. The cost of a coat can be obscene. So can the cost of a photo shoot if you're working with a really good photographer.
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I work all day, do research, sketch my ideas, prepare for performances.
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I remember when I first met Katherine Bigelow for 'Zero Dark Thirty' – actually, we met for another movie, and that never got made, and then she called me and invited me to 'Zero Dark Thirty'.
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I grew up with a tribe of amazing women, but certainly my mother and my godmother really modeled women as actors.
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I wanted to write a story set in the Lovecraftian universe that didn't gloss over the uglier implications of his worldview.
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I'm just going to say I'm not gay. I really, really like women. That's all I can really say about that.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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As a professional actor, I don't have much choice about what I've gotten into. I tend to be cast in comedies and I'm fine with that.
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For the professional writer, stories must be presented as a series of individual scenes, each one dramatized with dialogue and telling descriptions of who is present and what they're all doing.
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An army marches on its stomach.
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I've been through cancer, divorce, loss and bereavement, but they are things most humans go through.
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'when you are a Bear of Very Little Brain, and you Think of Things, you find sometimes that a Thing which seemed very Thingish inside you is quite different when it gets out into the open and has other people looking at it.'
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What are you gonna do? Kill me? Everybody dies.
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Why it is that of all the billions and billions of strange objects in the Cosmos - novas, quasars, pulsars, black holes - you are beyond doubt the strangest?
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I now think, Love is rather deaf, than blind, For else it could not be, That she, Whom I adore so much, should so slight me, And cast my love behind.
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A form must be of its own time if it is to be recognized: one cannot relate to what one is not or does not have – Thus all that is of the past is to be rejected.
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Prayer is not about letting God know your will; it's about completely submitting to him. You die to yourself.
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I know there is a hope in religion; I know there is faith and I know there is prayer about religion and necessary to it, but God is most glorified when there is peace on earth and good will towards men
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I should have loved freedom, I believe, at all times, but in the time in which we live I am ready to worship it.
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I made a lot of money, and I want to give something back to my country.
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God would remain absolutely hidden if we were not illuminated by the brightness of Christ.
