John Calvin Quotes
On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.
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Like working families all across the state, we must find a way to make government live within its means.
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I've programmed myself musically to come up with love-feeling tracks that are romantic, sexy, but classy, all in one. And that's the challenge. Once I create that music, then the lyrical content starts to come - you know, the stories and things like that.
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I believe in eating as nutritiously as I can all the time... My mother raised me on fresh - rather than processed - foods, and that's how I eat on a regular basis.
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Bad ballplayers make good managers.
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I worked at a local television station and I got a chance to direct and do all those things - worked kiddie shows, Ranger House show with the hand puppets and things like that.
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I think it's funny because on 'Glee Project,' there's that added pressure, but with 'Glee,' there's no element of competition. No one's trying to dance better than anyone. But there's that added pressure of, 'So many people are going to watch 'Glee' this week. If I don't nail this dance, I look like an idiot.'
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I don't often get involved with campaigns at all.
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I hump the wild to take it all in, there is no bag limit on happiness.
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Ambition is not in itself an evil; nor is he to be condemned whose spirit prompts him to seek fame by worthy and honourable ways.
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Now painting is different. It's something recollected in tranquility.
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If there are rain puddles in heaven, Christina is jumping in them today. And here on Earth, we place our hands over our hearts, and commit ourselves as Americans to forging a country that is forever worthy of her gentle, happy spirit.
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Painting can never show her nose in company with architecture without being snubbed.
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I'm not the youngest person at the table anymore. I'm not the young precocious one. I feel like I'm engaging with people in a different way now. I am a woman. I'm treated with respect, as an equal.
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One Whitman is miracle enough, and when he comes again it will be the end of the world.
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'Uasti was a good teacher,' he said. 'She made you look a little way into yourself, see what you could become.'
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Be nice to people – all people – even when you don't have to be. Everybody is important.
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In defeating terror, Israel’s cause is our cause.
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What we do is to bring words back from their metaphysical to their everyday use.
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I can take care of a house, and some people I meet, I think, 'You don't even know how to make a bed.'
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In my case Pilgrim's Progress consisted in my having to climb down a thousand ladders until I could reach out my hand to the little clod of earth that I am.
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Jesus would not be crucified today. The prophets would not be stoned. Socrates would not drink the hemlock. They would instead be banned from the Sunday talk shows and op-ed pages by the sentries of establishment thinking who guard against dissent with the one weapon of mass destruction most cleverly designed to obliterate democracy: the rubber stamp.
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My mother refused to let me fail. So I insisted.
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I would say my theme has always been paradise lost, always the lost cause, the lost leader, the lost utopia.
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On the one hand, undeserved success gives no satisfaction... but, on the other hand, well-deserved failure gives no satisfaction either.
