John Calvin Quotes
Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
Quotes to Explore
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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I would convert to Judaism if the operation didn't hurt so much.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
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In football, there were drinks available everywhere you looked. On a golf tournament, you could find one free anywhere you wanted it. In tennis and NBA basketball, everybody had a hospitality suite, and so you could go there and load up if you wanted to.
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This is Earth. Isn't it hot?
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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My music is the most 'me' thing about me. Everything is in my music.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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Being married to a footballer is some girls' dream, but it isn't always like that. I work.
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I really did try to write it so that an educated public that cares about issues like this doesn't have to be a lawyer and can read it and understand it.
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It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
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Social criticism begins with grammar and the re-establishing of meanings.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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I think that providing obstructions in the live setting is when you get something that actually means something, as opposed to just aping your way through your greatest hits.
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We human beings do a lot of dumb things, and war is certainly the dumbest.
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When you first arrive in India, you think, 'God, these Indians treat their servants so badly! How awful!' It's something in the air, and something about the way people are, that very few people hold out. I wasn't able to. Everybody goes local. You stop saying 'thank you' and things like that.
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Laughing at his own son, who got his mother, and by his mother's means his father also, to indulge him, he told him that he had the most power of any one in Greece: 'For the Athenians command the rest of Greece, I command the Athenians, your mother commands me, and you command your mother'.
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You're supposed to get tired planting bulbs. But it's an agreeable tiredness.
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In great contests each party claims to act in accordance with the will of God. Both may be, and one must be wrong.
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We've had so many faith-based movies that I think are sub-par; I almost want a new phrase for them.
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Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
