John Calvin Quotes
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I think, from the very beginning, I always knew that I needed to get out of Malaysia and do my thing somewhere else.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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My whole thing is being sexy without showing too much, because that's my comfort level.
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When you forgive somebody, it doesn't necessarily mean you want to invite them to your table.
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It is one thing to tell the citizens of some faraway country to go to hell, but it is another to do the same to your own citizens, who are supposedly your ultimate sovereigns.
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The one serious conviction that a man should have is that nothing is to be taken too seriously.
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My main hope is eventually, in modern education field, introduce education about warm-heartedness, not based on religion, but based on common experience and a common sort of sense, and then scientific finding.
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The thing about Moby Dick is that, at heart, it's a very simple plot - there's only one white whale in the ocean. When you're a boy growing up in a hostile home, you imagine it's unique: it's happening only to you.
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That's when I hit the ground. So in the instant that that round landed and blew me in the air, I had those separate and distinct thoughts. The guy who was standing right next to where I had been standing had a hole in his back I could put my fist into.
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People have said things about me, and wrote and criticized me about things in the past, but it goes in one ear and out the other.
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I left Edinburgh to follow the London punk scene in 1978, singing and playing guitar in various bands. My income was sporadic, so I did anything to eke out some kind of subsistence - laying down slabs, working as a kitchen porter.
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I'm not a big planner; I decide by intuition.
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All the people who fought for freedom were my heroes. I mean, that was the sort of story I liked reading... freedom struggles and so on.
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The American family will fear less, our national security will be more assured, and we won‘t let the Venezuelas or Nigerias or the Saudi Arabias or the Irans jerk us around by the gas nozzle the way they are doing it now.
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The Master insisted that what he taught was nothing, what he did was nothing. His disciples gradually discovered that Wisdom comes to those who learn nothing, unlearn everything. That transformation is the consequence not of something done, but of something dropped.
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To communicate through silence is a link between the thoughts of man.
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I'm at my desk for about 9:30 A.M., and I stay there all day. Then there's a lot of checking Facebook and eBay and that sort of thing.
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I have really crooked teeth - they give me character!
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When I first went to prison, I was even questioning where, God, where are you?
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I was always a fan of Spider-Man and most superheroes. There aren't a whole lot of little boys out there that aren't.
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I didn't feel the kind of joy every day playing drums that I thought you were supposed to feel.
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The kingdom of God is a theocracy. And as it is the only form of government which will redeem and save mankind, it is necessary that every soul should be rightly and thoroughly instructed in regard to its nature and general characteristics.
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The more we are oppressed by the cross, the fuller will be our spiritual joy.
