John Calvin Quotes
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At first, before you meet her, you're like, 'I'm gonna meet Angelina Jolie! I'm talking to Angelina Jolie!' And then, within a matter of five minutes, you're like, 'Oh, I'm just talking to my director,' and it's just back to work. She really is all about the work. She's so surprisingly down-to-earth.
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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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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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I need instant gratification.
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There are moments when I am really not happy with how I look, or I think it would be an easy way out to try and do the conventionally attractive thing. But part of it is that I don't have the energy to put on, like, makeup. If people want to do that, that's fine. But I've learned that it's not for me.
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If you want to be happy, make others happy!
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I've been asked to interview for many managing jobs, and I never said yes because I was never serious about it, and I thought it would be wrong to go through that process.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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Breast-feeding does not belong in the realm of facts and hard numbers; it is much too intimate and elemental.
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Executive orders are meant for occasional use, not to force something through that the people's elected representatives aren't going to make law.
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Can the 'word' be pinned down to either one period or one church? All churches are, of course, only more or less unsuccessful attempts to represent the unseen to the mind.
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Using, as an excuse, others’ failure of common sense is in itself a failure of common sense.
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Anybody can make history. Only a great man can write it.
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It’s been said many times in world art writing that one can find some of painting’s meaning by looking not only at what painters do, but what they refuse to do.
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No person under eighteen years of age should be allowed to take any vow or long-term commitment in association with Opus Dei.
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The Bush Doctrine is democratic imperialism. This will bleed, bankrupt and isolate this republic. This overthrows the wisdom of the Founding Fathers about what America should be all about.
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When I’ve been unsuccessful, I’ve been controlled. When I’ve been successful, I’ve been in control.
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I once got engaged to his daughter Honoria, a ghastly dynamic exhibit who read Nietzsche and had a laugh like waves breaking on a stern and rockbound coast.
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It's a really interesting and diverse business. You're a farmer first, then a winemaker, then you're onto marketing and distribution. So it's multi-faceted and really engaging. I've learned more in the last couple years than in the ten prior to that, so it's been pretty interesting.
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Always win fools first. They talk much, and what they have once uttered they will stick to; whereas there is always time, up to the last moment, to bring before a wise man arguments that may entirely change his opinion.
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Prayers will never reach God unless they are founded on free mercy.
