John Calvin Quotes
When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
Quotes to Explore
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Homophobia is rampant in soccer, probably more so than in any other sport. I'm not sure why.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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The idea of going on tour for the rest of my life with old works is not that exciting. As an artist I definitely think the work in future is going to be better than the work in the past, otherwise why do it?
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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We asked Jane Fonda if she would like to meet American pilots in Hanoi, but she refused, she didn't want to.
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
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I wouldn't want to write a biography of anyone. I'd feel too inhibited by the facts and too much pressure to do the subject's life justice.
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I went to college. I had a double major in biology and physical education, but my major was wrestling.
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He has missed the finest lesson of culture and experience who has not learned how to enjoy without owning.
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I believe fantasy and dreaming can be made a reality. You don't have to be rich. You don't have to be a VIP.
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I always have a lot of things going on because some things take years to make and others take five minutes. I like that there's always something going on. Working doesn't have such a momentous feel - like it's all or nothing.
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They put it on the page because it sounded good or it looked good or they read it in a book somewhere that this is how you structure a script or something, and they just don't get it. It's surprising.
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The public always picks quality.
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Small wonder that spell means both a story told, and a formula of power over living men.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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Each must the other take as sign, short sign To stop the whirlwind, balk the elements.
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All has been looted, betrayed, sold; black death's wing flashed ahead.
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I also remember a line from a song by Smog [Bill Callahan], which seems to describe the experience of a town-dweller moving to the country: "I was raised in a pit of snakes/Blink your eyes - I was raised on cake."
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There was one very special scene at the end of the film. My character, Zhao Di, has been sick. She wakes up and her mother tells her that the man she loves has come back from the city and had spent the day by her bedside.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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You can do and use the skills that you have. The schools need you. The teachers need you. Students and parents need you. They need your actual person: your physical personhood and your open minds and open ears and boundless compassion, sitting next to them, listening and nodding and asking questions for hours at a time.
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I guess I like who I am now. I'd just like to have a little more internal peace. I'm sure everybody would.
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When God designs to forgive us he changes our hearts and turns us to obedience by His Spirit.
