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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When I fight someone, I want to break his will. I want to take his manhood. I want to rip out his heart and show it to him.
Mike Tyson
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We need first of all the reform of our justice system. We need reform of the education system, because of quality of education because of innovation and technology. And we need administrative reform. Too much bureaucracy.
Iveta Radicova
