John Calvin Quotes
Prosperity inebriates men, so that they take delights in their own merits.
John Calvin
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I have no problems with remakes, and I think it's interesting. I mean, coming from the theater, we've been remaking 'Hamlet' for a hundred years, so it's no problem to me at all. A good story can be told in many different ways in different places; I just think it's interesting.
Baltasar Kormakur
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
Lara St. John
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A writer is someone who tells you one thing so someday he can tell his readers another thing: what he was thinking but declined to say, or what he would have thought had he been wiser. A writer turns his life into material, and if you're in his life, he uses yours, too.
Walter Kirn
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I've never abandoned the novel.
V. S. Naipaul
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I have a rich, full, textured life.
Lainie Kazan
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I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
Carl Reiner
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Steaming maintains some of the aubergine flesh's texture, which doesn't happen if you cook it in any other way.
Yotam Ottolenghi
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True republicanism is the sovereignty of the people. There are natural and imprescriptible rights which an entire nation has no right to violate.
Marquis de Lafayette
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The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'
Diana Ross
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Yeah, I've been here, man. Where these guys are, I've been there. I guess it comes to a point in your career where it feels good for me to come back, to give something back like this.
Kirby Puckett
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The only one that I think I could beat, if my life depended on it, would be the Predator. If it was in my territory, in my domain, with the guns that I've got, I think I could hurt him pretty bad. That's the only one, though. When you get into metaphysical creatures, they don't play fair.
Lance Henriksen
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If you're paid before you walk on the court, what's the point in playing as if your life depended on it?
Arthur Ashe
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When I free my body from its clothes, from all their buttons, belts, and laces, it seems to me that my soul takes a deeper, freer breath.
August Strindberg
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Educated fools; from uneducated schools.
Curtis Mayfield
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Things that are really offensive make me laugh because I like things that push the envelope, go out on a limb, and are bold.
Courteney Cox
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To be frank, politics is about wanting power, getting it, exercising it, and keeping it.
Jean Chretien
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A year ago, you wanted to give up because we were losing, and now, you want to give up because we're winning.
Ann Althouse
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The future is beyond knowing, but the present is beyond belief.
William Irwin Thompson
