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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I really like guys who have confidence, but not the cocky over-the-top confidence.
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Life is an interpretation of a series of facts, and that interpretation is really what life is about. So the division between non-fiction and fiction has a certain logic, but it's a very limited one. And by and large, it isn't helpful.
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Like Nietzsche, he rails at romanticism, but it is evident that what they both mean by the word is the clichés of second-hand romance. Historic romanticism is in fact the ground-work of their philosophy.
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I can find God in nature, in animals, in birds and the environment.
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What's shocking is cruelty and torture, and that's become our entertainment. Kids can play violent video games, but God forbid they look at a naked woman. That's pornography, that's perverse. No!
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Faith is a knowledge of the benevolence of God toward us, and a certain persuasion of His veracity.
