John Calvin Quotes
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I've always had better luck learning things on my own. And I really love the challenge of doing it yourself and kind of being alone against the system.
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I'm big on manners. I'm big on politeness. I'm big on gratitude.
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Doctors cannot afford to provide care at the rate of reimbursement that Medicare insists that they accept.
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I would definitely like to start a family because it's the most important thing in the world and what you should take care of, along with your friends and the people you love.
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At Gallaudet, deafness isn't an issue. You don't even think about it. Students can pay attention to accounting or psychology or journalism. But when a deaf person goes to another college, no matter how supportive it is, that person doesn't get the same access.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I feel like the luckiest person on the planet. 'Tron' was such a departure for me.
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I am no longer concerned with sensation and innovation, but with the perfection of my style.
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There's no musical landscape to poetry. It has somewhat of a higher standard than songs, I think.
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It is totally unacceptable that there are countries with no paediatric cardiac surgeries.
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It's really a misconception to identify the writer with the main character, given that the author creates all the characters in the book. In certain ways, I'm every character.
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Using a dog as a narrator has limitations and it has advantages. The limitations are that a dog cannot speak. A dog has no thumbs. A dog can't communicate his thoughts except with gestures.
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Applause is the spur of noble minds, the end and aim of weak ones.
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I personally don't even try to compare New York and L.A. To me, they are just way too different.
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As soon as I start reading, drawing comes to me more easily. I find I work in my sketchbooks more. But if I'm working on a new show, my reading completely stops except when I'm on a plane. I take a stack of New Yorkers with me. I feel awful about those stacks of New Yorkers.
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I'd like to be an actress when I'm older. I sometimes do improv. I used to do it with my dad.
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When I start a picture, I always have a script, but I change it every day. I put in what occurs to me that day out of my imagination. You start on a voyage; you know where you will end up but not what will occur along the way. You want to be surprised.
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I only get to spend about six to eight weeks in Australia now and I really miss my family and friends.
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It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.
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Look not to have your sepulchre built in after ages hy the same foolish hands which still ever destroy the living prophet. Small honour for you if they do build it; and may be they never will build it.
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I see myself as a story teller.
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Knowledge is proud that it knows so much; wisdom is humble that it knows no more.
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The work I have done has, already, been adequately rewarded and recognized. Imagination reaches out repeatedly trying to achieve some higher level of understanding, until suddenly I find myself momentarily alone before one new corner of nature's pattern of beauty and true majesty revealed. That was my reward.
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Knowledge of the sciences is so much smoke apart from the heavenly science of Christ.
