John Calvin Quotes
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Everything begins with an idea.
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I got a bike when I was little, a BMX. I called it 'Fido Dido' after the tough little cartoon guy with spiked hair. I thought he was the coolest thing ever.
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In our local Baptist church, I sang in the choir and formed a gospel quartet. When our minister caught me messing with his guitar, he taught me three positions – one, four and five. After that, I taught myself to play.
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It is not whether you really cry. It's whether the audience thinks you are crying.
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I've only chosen films that offered me something concrete, even if it is less than what I get to do in the South.
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My co-winners, Peter Diamond and Christopher Pissarides, and I wish to thank the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences and the Nobel Foundation for this very great honor. We each feel privileged and humbled to be named the winners of the 2010 Sveriges Riksbank Prize in Economic Sciences in Memory of Alfred Nobel.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I punish myself more than anybody else does if I am stupid about my actions, and I suffer, really suffer.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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I've always felt so fortunate to have writing to turn to every day. I'm obsessed with it.
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I definitely like wearing leotards.
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Home is where you are appreciated, safe and protected, creative, and where you are loved - not where you are put in prison.
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It's a shame when other people's gambling habits change the meaning of paintings or when fluctuations of value start to dictate how people perceive art because it's too expensive to be interesting or moving. That's when I get bummed out.
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I genuinely want to do my best every day, and I genuinely want to enjoy life every day.
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When you lose your freedom, you are alone with your emotions and reactions... you can see, for example, the bad reactions you have in front of others or the way you could be dismissive or harsh.
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Concussions happen. If not on every play, then they happen like every other, every third play, you know.
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Basically I hate categorical labels. As a young artist I already was very clear about this - that 'objectification' is not the final aim of art. For there are greater things than the object. The greatest thing is the human mind.
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The Seventies theory explosion i.e., Literary theory, deconstruction, etc. was a panic reaction by headlocked pedants unable to cope with the emotional and sensory flux of the Sixties. It was a desperate search for new authority, new dogma.
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Remember, there are still many years of struggle ahead, and even when you are a woman, you will have to do your part in the struggle. Meanwhile, you have to prepare yourself, be very revolutionary - which at your age means to learn a lot, as much as possible, and always be ready to support just causes.
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The great man is too often all of a piece; it is the little man that is a bundle of contradictory elements. He is inexhaustible. You never come to the end of the surprises he has in store for you.
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Stop thinking about failing.
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I have two nexuses of sadness about the Mormon Church. The first is the effect the Church's position on homosexuality has on Mormons.
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Love is not a mere impulse, it must contain truth, which is law.
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All truth is God's truth.
