John Calvin Quotes
No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
Quotes to Explore
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Let's judge a man on what he's done.
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Never having alone time is real tough on people.
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I'm a great supporter of women who take risks and don't make victimhood into an art. It's not good for women, and it's not good for men. Too many men put all their emotional eggs in one basket - a woman's basket.
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There's nothing wrong with constructive criticism, and I learn from that and better myself. I'm not expecting anyone to be sycophantic in any way; I never expected that.
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I think that I am seeing the Internet and seeing technology take and seeing how the work I do through music directly affects people's lives better than any politician I've ever met.
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I really enjoy being a dad, and maybe I took it too seriously, but I love being around my kids.
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You can't try to be somebody you're not; that's not style. If someone says, 'Buy this - you'll be stylish,' you won't be stylish because you won't be you. You have to learn who you are first, and that's painful.
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I learned how to comport myself among trolls, elves, hobbits or goblins. I learned that a friend can be lost to greed and avarice. I learned that solving riddles may be as important a survival skill as bowmanship. I know how to talk to a dragon, and that it's best not to.
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We're going to test with the same car, but we have a new car ready.
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I'm not a Trump fan, to put it mildly, but I think there's a power to simplicity. When Trump was running, people knew exactly what he stood for and what he was going to do as President.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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Winning one league title at Roma, to me, is worth winning 10 at Juventus or Real Madrid.
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There is a story which is not being told strongly enough of the Afghan employees of the UN inside the country who are saving hundreds of thousands of lives everyday by their bravery and nobody talks of them.
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With my writing, what I want to do is humanize the young people I write about.
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Nothing was made in Trinidad.
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A slice of hot, buttered toast is the perfect meal. It's not too much and not too little, and it gives you just the right buzz.
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SF isn't a genre; SF is the matrix in which genres are embedded, and because the SF field is never going in any one direction at any one time, there is hardly a way to cut it off.
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It's a sad fact about our culture that a poet can earn much more money writing or talking about his art than he can by practicing it.
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All the dreamers in all the world are dizzy in the noodle.
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Leisure of itself gives pleasure and happiness and enjoyment of life, which are experienced, not by the busy man, but by those who have leisure.
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When someone else’s happiness is your happiness, that is love.
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To learn that happiness is what brings success, and not the other.
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Happiness is a journey rather than a destination.
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No one will calmly and quietly submit to bear the cross except those who have learned to seek their happiness beyond this world.
