John Calvin Quotes
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My abuela was an incredible cook.
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If we overregulate, over control, impose too many burdens and too much bureaucracy - or if we do it across the board, without taking into account the differences among businesses and their relative impact on society - that could make people risk-averse and dampen the entrepreneurial spirit.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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I adored my father.
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For me there is no such word as 'luck' in the dictionary.
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No man ever praised two persons equally – and pleased them both.
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Life is a four-letter word.
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It's really fun to just stretch out and not have any boundaries or just try something for the craft.
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People such as Hunter S. Thompson and the Beats were a huge influence on me, not just in what they were saying, but how they said it.
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I was in Jungian analysis for 20 years, 1976-96.
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How do you go from where you are to where you wanna be? And I think you have to have an enthusiasm for life. You have to have a dream, a goal. And you have to be willing to work for it.
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I don't like the idea that you're supposed to woo someone by doing things you wouldn't want to do on an everyday basis.
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When I write a record, I don't even touch a computer. I don't even bring my cell phone.
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So, the point I'm making is, we are not going to cut spending in Washington if we think it's the job of every congressman and senator is to pave local parking lots and build local sewer plants. These parochial interests are getting in the way of the national interests.
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Paradox is the technique for seizing the conflicting aspects of any problem. Paradox coalesces or telescopes various facets of a complex process in a single instant. (p. 106)
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I like strong girls, as long as they don't get snappish. And furthermore I think it important that you are good buddies and she does not get angry when you don't have your day.
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If the two economies can figure out how to waltz... I think there is benefit for Colorado colleges and universities, and I think there are benefits for Cuba as well.
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I will always need my son, no matter what age I am. My son has made me laugh, made me proud, made me cry, seen me cry, hugged me tight, seen me fail, cheered me up, kept me on my toes, and at times driven me crazy, But my son is a promise that I will have a friend forever!
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By the eighteenth book, one has a sense of having bricked oneself into a niche, a roosting place for other people's pigeons. I wouldn't recommend it.
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In my family, there was one cardinal priority - education. College was not an option; it was mandatory. So even though we didn’t have a lot of money, we made it work. I signed up for financial aid, Pell Grants, work study, anything I could.
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Prayer is more than words. It's listening, seeing and feeling.
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Against the persecution of a tyrant the godly have no remedy but prayer.
