John Calvin Quotes
Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve.
Quotes to Explore
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For me, being an actress, my responsibility is not to pay attention to all the noise around me and to pay attention to the script and the director and protect the character and try to tell her story the best I can.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Put variety into your mental bill of fare as well as into your physical. It will pay you rich returns.
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Politics is a necessary evil, or a necessary annoyance, a necessary conundrum.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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Boxing traditionally was received very well and accepted on both sides.
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I think it is important for children to read different things to find out about their emotions and other people's emotions. It is an enormous source of education and culture.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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I don't loathe interviews, I'm just one of those people who makes music because I find it difficult to talk.
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I have used Proactiv, and I use X Out, and they are the only things that work for me.
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The five different areas in which boys are in crisis - education; jobs; emotional health; physical health; and fatherlessness - are handled by different portions of the government.
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He who frames the question wins the debate.
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There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.
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I would think flying would be pretty cool. You would be able to fly away from all your enemies and get where you're going much faster. But being invisible? You probably wouldn't use that for the good of man.
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The victory of vivisection marks a great advance in the triumph of ruthless, non-moral utilitarianism over the old world of ethical law; a triumph in which we, as well as animals, are already the victims, and of which Dachau and Hiroshima mark the more recent achievements.
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We need no chieftain; such folk eat more than their share.
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In the morning, when thou art sluggish at rousing thee, let this thought be present; 'I am rising to a man’s work.'
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A well-run organization turns over 10% of their organizations, including senior leadership. I don't have the heart to do that.
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I am really looking for a chance to direct. I feel like that's kind of the next frontier for me. I know that it's really hard to do, but I feel like I want to have a chance to try and translate something I've written and try and get a tone across.
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Writers throughout the ages have one weapon, which is literature, but they also have their responsibilities as a citizen when literature does not seem to suffice. I mean, they are not mutually exclusive. One continues to write anyway but if you are called out to demonstrate, if people are being killed in the streets, it's hardly the moment to go for your pen and paper, you know, help in one way or the other.
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I've already fought my share. God gave me a rich, eventful career, and I thank God for everything, but I'm done fighting.
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What a silly god, he makes everybody born bad to go to burning hell. Why so mad? All his fault!
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Faith is like an empty, open hand stretched out towards God, with nothing to offer and everything to recieve.
