John Calvin Quotes
No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree of watchfulness, and the great majority of Christians are kept down with such great weakness that they stagger and halt and even creep on the ground, and so make very slight advances.
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Sometimes what I think what the news is missing is the human element, the connection - the moment that you look into a little girl's eyes or a father who has just left his family and risked everything just to try and survive.
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Laughter is healing and helpful and fun, and I see my role as an entertainer, and I want readers to leave my books smiling.
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Ali was a guy that had a lot of discipline. If you hung around him, you'd be able to get some of that discipline that he had. And I learned from that. He was a sweet man.
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As I get older, I find that wearing bright colors cheers me up.
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I work in areas related to child protection and family safety, women's empowerment, the creation of opportunities for youth, and culture and tourism. Daunting? Yes. Impossible? No. In fact, such challenges energize me.
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Muslims who commit terrorist acts are perverting their religion.
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If you live in the overlapping world of politics and media, as I am learning, anything less than full transparency can potentially do you in.
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Tony Blair is not a villain, but he's played the part very well.
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Athletic competition clearly defines the unique power of our attitude.
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So vast is the shadow cast by the MGM production of 'The Wizard of Oz,' so indelible are its characterizations, so perfect its music, and so assured is its cinematic immortality, that most people think of it as 'The Original.' In fact, it isn't.
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If you're going to play high school football, you do it in Texas or Florida or Georgia for the simple fact it's such a big deal.
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And when I've been away from my family and friends, I have felt good hearing some of those old songs.
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The future of the world's film industry is in China because we have 1.3 billion people.
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It's not just a revue where one song is done, then another. There are concepts and ideas at work.
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All that a husband or wife really wants is to be pitied a little, praised a little, and appreciated a little.
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I imagine how hard it might be to walk down the runway. Me in heels is, like, deforesting the forest, knocking trees, completely 'timber!'
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Violence is interesting. This is a great obstacle to world peace and also to more thoughtful television programming.
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I think Les Moonves is the most highly overrated person in television.
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They say golf came easy to me because I was a good athlete, but there's not any girl on the LPGA Tour who worked near as hard as I did in golf. It's the toughest game I ever tackled.
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I feel that being an actor is a front-row seat into seeing how everybody else makes their movies. Basically, being in the trenches for ten years is like a college-level course in filmmaking if not more. It feels like every director I work with and every set that I visit as an actor, I see someone else's definition of filmmaking.
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One of the things I appreciate more was how important struggle was as the instrument that helped to keep us knit together.
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Nobody was ever meant, To remember or invent, What he did with every cent.
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Uninformed people can be easily manipulated.
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No one in this earthly prison of the body has sufficient strength of his own to press forward with a due degree of watchfulness, and the great majority of Christians are kept down with such great weakness that they stagger and halt and even creep on the ground, and so make very slight advances.
