John Calvin Quotes
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.John Calvin
Quotes to Explore
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Directors are our teachers, and I'm always craving to work with a great director. They're pretty much the first thing that interests me about a project. Let's put it this way: It'll take me a lot longer to read a script if there's no director attached.
Naomi Watts -
The financial catastrophe of 2008 nearly precipitated a calamitous economic depression, jolting America and much of the West into a sudden recognition of their systemic vulnerability to unregulated greed.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
If you seek violence, we will seek to put you in jail.
Ed Koch -
Different directors have different things, so when I left Mike Leigh, as it were, and I went into other projects after 'All or Nothing,' it took some getting used to - what do you mean there's a script?!?' That kind of thing.
Sally Hawkins -
I would dodge, not lie, in the national interest.
Larry Speakes -
You can't just keep recycling revivals. And you can't keep betting on the efforts of guys like me who've been around. You have to take the next step and bet on the next generation.
Harold Prince
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But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they dominated the world.
E. O. Wilson -
Drama starts where logic ends.
Ram Charan -
Most actors and actresses are performative as people.
Zoe Lister-Jones -
I feel like as you get older, the roles you get change, and you don't always want to do the same tone over and over again.
Vince Vaughn -
Data allow your political judgments to be based on fact, to the extent that numbers describe realities.
Hans Rosling -
Having to re-recruit, rehire, and retrain, and wait for a new employee to get up to speed is devastating in terms of cost.
Patrick Lencioni
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I've made it my mission to make movies starring African American actors and about the African American experience and put them in the mainstream. They're very universal stories I've told - every movie I've done.
Malcolm D. Lee -
If your government had given me a thousandth of the sum it spent to depose me, I could have won that war.
Bao Dai -
There are so many women who contributed in a very real way in pushing for the space program during the time in which there was a lot of competition to get into space first, and to know that there were African-American women who were integral in that success is pretty phenomenal.
Mahershala Ali -
The South of France is one of my favorite places in the world.
M. Ward -
I can only speak for myself and my own music, because that is what I am most familiar with, and I write about things that I am living or experiencing.
Laura Bell Bundy -
The Democrats' drive to defeat Neil Gorsuch is the latest battle in a 50-year war for control of the Supreme Court - a war that began with a conspiracy against Richard Nixon by Chief Justice Earl Warren, Justice Abe Fortas and Lyndon Johnson.
Pat Buchanan
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I like to capture the spirit of what the writers intended but find my own nuances. That comes from jazz - the invention and freeness within a structure.
Brian Stokes Mitchell -
Where evil habits are once settled, they are more easily broken than mended.
Quintilian -
I know conventional wisdom has always been to go to Europe, and I did that early on, and I tried it, but I realised pretty quickly if I wasn't playing, nothing else mattered - I wasn't going to be happy.
Landon Donovan -
There are signs jobs will be plentiful in the future, if we train and prepare for it. That means investing in technology, innovation, and, as much as Republicans will hate to hear this, renewable energy.
Fabrizio Moreira -
Business models that are relevant today are not relevant tomorrow and were not in existence yesterday.
Chanda Kochhar -
The evil in our desires typically does not lie in what we want, but that we want it too much.
John Calvin