John Calvin Quotes
I cannot think such language either right, or becoming, or suitable. ... To call the Virgin Mary the mother of God can only serve to confirm the ignorant in their superstitions.
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I don't think Cheney started off in 2000 with a burning desire to become vice-president. I think the prospect gradually became more appealing, and he goosed the process.
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I buried Joel on our 48th anniversary. I had been with her since I was 16.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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I grew up in the South and went to church a lot.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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I wrote my novel 'Bitter Greens' as the creative component of a Doctorate of Creative Arts and am now looking at the history of the Rapunzel tale as my theoretical component.
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Nothing is ever for sure, but when something in love doesn't work from the beginning, it's never going to work. Don't push it.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I don't think my parents would have let me go straight into acting full time when I was 12. I do like to have balance, naturally, as an individual.
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I'm like an old vampire, so it's important to talk to young people.
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The journey matters as much as the goal.
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The Arab Awakening or Arab Spring has transformed the geopolitical landscape.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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I may as well say it, I have been married three times.
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Ours is an excessively conscious age. We know so much, we feel so little.
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
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The ear tends to be lazy, craves the familiar and is shocked by the unexpected; the eye, on the other hand, tends to be impatient, craves the novel and is bored by repetition.
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You don't inherit cancer; you actually get it.
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I can remember earning £5,000 a game playing for Hibs at the end of the Seventies. They let me commute from London, train on the Friday and play on Saturday. That lasted until my friends at the Inland Revenue decided to take two-thirds. That wasn't very entertaining for me.
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You watch the interview afterwards, and they didn't really say much, but it's interesting, funny, and engaging. Whereas I sit there and look a little bit too serious, and as soon as that happens then you're uncomfortable and you don't want to watch.
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I lost many literary battles the day I read 'Their Eyes Were Watching God.' I had to concede that occasionally aphorisms have their power. I had to give up the idea that Keats had a monopoly on the lyrical.
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It's always been my hope, as an actor, to reveal only what is relevant about myself to the work.
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I read a book lately by Nietzsche and he says religion is just to dull the senses of the people. I agree.
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I cannot think such language either right, or becoming, or suitable. ... To call the Virgin Mary the mother of God can only serve to confirm the ignorant in their superstitions.
