John Calvin Quotes
All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.
Quotes to Explore
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Only twice have I really had a hard time leaving a character. The first was my character in 'Rome' and then in 'Homeland.'
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I think in a play it's wise to just sit back and watch other actors and be able to shape it from the audience.
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But the Western countries that link their partnership with the poorest countries with respect for democracy also have to consider that they have obligations towards these countries.
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I know there is something out there, and like most people, I tend to believe in it more when things go bad. But I'm not like Shirley MacLaine, who probably believes we were past lovers in another life.
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Every time I get in the studio, I feel like I wanna have some fun. My fun is not doing the easy work. My fun is doing what's me.
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French men can be very tough too, you know... Real bad boys move in silence, as we know, so you don't have to be loud and muscular to be scary, actually.
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I don't need fame and I don't need power and I don't need wealth. I'm in need of friends, which I have found in abundance.
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What I like about music is the songs you can remember the lines of in a single second.
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Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
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God is love. I have loved. Therefore, I will go to heaven.
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Christians take Scriptures out of context to try to justify or to vindicate retreat and cowardice.
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No one even knows one percent of the fabulous history of Man; but thanks to history, we know about occurrences that go beyond the limits of the imaginable.
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
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After that I won a prize, I was with a group of ancient music of Spain that they helped me a lot with a grant, you see, during three years. And so I made my debut in 1944 and I found myself helping my family, it was a very poor family.
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People dance and we have a lot of music and... this might be the closet I get for a while.
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Look up from what you're doing and look around for a minute. See what a beautiful world you're in.
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Bands from Akron have a sense of humor and don't tend to take themselves too seriously.
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No universal selfishness can bring social good to all. Communism - the effort to give all men what they need and to ask of each the best they can contribute - this is the only way of human life.
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I don't vote party lines. Never have. I vote for the best candidate.
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How can you have order in a state without religion? For, when one man is dying of hunger near another who is ill of surfeit, he cannot resign himself to this difference unless there is an authority which declares 'God wills it thus.' Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet.
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Every time I come home, it is the same great pleasure to lie down in my bed. That's when I think, 'home sweet home.'
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I think there's a feeling of - a grassroots feeling of being betrayed by the elites in some way: that the system is working for itself and not for the people at the bottom.
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Oratory is, after all, the prose literature of the savage.
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All our words ought to be filled with true sweetness and grace; and this will be so if we mingle the useful with the sweet.
