John Calvin Quotes
Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?
Quotes to Explore
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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Indeed, our British friends have decided to leave us - which is very sad for all of us - but life goes on, and the European Union as well goes on.
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I'm on this diet where you're supposed to eat only fish and meat.
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Whenever I do something, it seems so right. And turns out so wrong.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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When you're a mom to three children, nothing bothers you. Trust me. Who cares what people say? I've got other things to deal with.
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In this business, it's important to constantly do things that you don't know how to do. I love touring and making records, but I've learned how to do that, so sometimes you just have to dive in and try it.
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Born in 1936, I experienced the Second World War as a child in the city of Gelsenkirchen-Buer. This area was heavily bombed, but fortunately, all members of my family survived the war and post-war period.
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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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Do the difficult things while they are easy and do the great things while they are small. A journey of a thousand miles must begin with a single step.
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There are charms made only for distant admiration.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Make-up is all about shading; it's about tactical application.
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I wanted to only create a great perfume, not any perfume that would sell, but a great artistic one that the fans would not feel cheated by.
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Drums were my first instrument, my first love. I need rhythm, something that moves.
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If you didn't know that I am an actress, I don't think you could tell from my lifestyle. I cook and cook and cook. I like to be with my daughter. She's 16, so of course I bore her.
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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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People confuse goodness with weakness. It is weak people, not good people (goodness demands strength), who are taken advantage of.
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If I could live a parallel life, I would be a sitcom star; being in front of a live audience would be great.
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We make too much of winning. The mere fact of winning doesn't make you great.
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One act of pure love in saving life is greater than spending the whole of one's time in religious offerings to the gods . . .
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And then we all just started laughing. We laughed our asses off. But I knew that really, all three of us were crying. And I knew there would be tears inside of us all our lives. Because they just left. We were even worth a good-bye. Yeah, there would always be tears inside of us. Because there was an empty space inside the three of us that would always belong to the parent who had refused to love us.
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Where is our acknowledgement of God if our thoughts are fixed on the glamour of our garments?
