John Calvin Quotes
To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.
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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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We learn martial arts as helping weakness. You never fight for people to get hurt. You're always helping people.
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More than 70 percent of seniors are asking for more time. It is long overdue for Congress to listen and make sure that seniors have a prescription drug plan that works for them.
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My mom, she is the most unbelievable mom that you could ever have in your entire life and she's always with me on everything. The most I've ever been away from her is two days. I love her more than anybody could ever know.
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I wish I had an answer to that because I'm tired of answering that question.
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A nation's economy is more than its markets, tastes, technologies and property rights.
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I am extremely lucky that I have a husband who is so supportive. He's not in the slightest bit jealous or worried about the things I do in certain scenes.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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There's a lot of garbage, and then there are those ones that just stand out so incredibly. You fight for those roles; you do everything in your power to get it.
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Sometimes if a song hits me really good the first time, I get sick of it. And by the 10th time I've heard it, it's just candy, and I don't like it anymore.
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As much as my kids keep me young, they also have the reverse effect when I don't have the energy.
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I have great people, smart people that are around me and we love the challenge. I guess it's like climbing a mountain or building a building. It's a challenge but you love every challenge that it brings or presents itself.
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You probably wouldn't worry about what people think of you if you could know how seldom they do.
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The actual producing, mixing, and mastering is hard work, harder than what I do.
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I think that 'Heroes' really is about family. I mean, sure, it's this surreal story, and it's about people with powers, but the story behind that story is a story of family.
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I'm proud of the fact that I stood up early and unequivocally in opposition to Bush's foreign policy. That opposition hasn't changed.
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Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.
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Understanding someone, and loving him despite that understanding, is a trait more often found in angels than in mankind.
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People are wrong when they say opera is not what it used to be. It is what it used to be. That is what's wrong with it.
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Become a good all-around human being.
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Lord of the Rings, I think, is far and away the most brilliantly done stuff.
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To crave wealth and honor, to demand power, to pile up riches, to gather all those vanities which seem to make for pomp and empty display, that is our furious passion and our unbounded desire.On the other hand, we fear and abhor poverty, obscurity, and humility, and we seek to avoid them by all possible means.
