John Calvin Quotes
The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.
Quotes to Explore
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There is always pressure in football.
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The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.
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More and more, cultural groups are cross-pollinating, and we're getting much more interesting art as a result.
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I used to have a very unmediated experience of food but, because of the recipe testing, I've lost that now. I can't switch it off even when I'm on holiday.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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Many of my constituents are in their 80s, 90s, even 100, and our focus is ensuring that their needs can be provided for.
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Different directors offer you different things, and it's not necessarily the most obvious things.
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Ethanol has reduced our nation's dependence on imported energy, created thousands of jobs, reduced air pollution, and increased energy security. And renewable fuels cost less at the pump. It is a growth fuel that fuels opportunities for millions of Americans.
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I think we have to secure our borders and make sure that people coming in are coming here not to do us harm.
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Opposition to abortion was one of the ways the Christian right was brought into the Republican Party by conservatives hoping to move the party further right. Now, of course, the tail is wagging the dog.
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Whenever you hear a discussion about the short-term swings in any given stock's price, your immediate thought should be whether it matters to why you are investing.
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Ninety percent of hockey is mental and the other half is physical.
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I'm just trying to play against ethnicity. I got to play a guy from Louisiana in 'The Pacific' named Merriell Shelton, and now I'm playing Elliot Alderman.
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I've been a storyteller all my life. When I was in high school, I used to amuse myself by driving through the woods at night and see how long it would be before I scared the pants off my friends - and if I could do it before I scared myself.
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I have suffered from depression for most of my life. It is an illness.
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There are limits beyond which your folly will not carry you. I am glad of that. In fact, I am relieved.
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It's not a bad thing fighting for equality and helping the poor. It's not a bad thing to have on your professional tombstone: 'He believed in equality and he helped the poor.'
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The manner of the country makes the usage of life there, and the land will not be lived in except in its own fashion.
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No, it doesn't affect my morale. Because life must go on. I would pick up a paper or a derogatory article and stick it in my bathroom or my desk and see it every morning. I look at it as something that has to be overcome- (On his reaction to the abuse and ridicule in the Press).
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I'm going to move on and do other things. My life isn't going to be about Jar Jar Binks.
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Some Lynyrd Skynyrd songs are literally the backdrop of America. Songs like 'Simple Man' and 'Free Bird' and 'Alabama.' I wasn't prepared for how emotional the crowd gets during the songs.
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My mother and my sisters - five girls - were crazy about glamour and Hollywood movies. I styled myself on Veronica Lake and Marlene Dietrich.
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I can always tell when you're reading somewhere in the house,' my mother used to say. 'There's a special silence, a reading silence.
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The human heart is a factory of idols...Everyon e of us is, from his mother's womb, expert in inventing idols.
