John Calvin Quotes
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I can create institutions, but I can't rewrite the chips in people's heads.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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Overall, the anarchy was the most creative of all periods of Japanese culture for in it there appeared the greatest landscape painting, the culmination of the skill of landscape gardening and the arts of flower arrangement, and the No drama.
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We talk a lot about hope, helping, and teamwork. Our whole message is that we are more powerful together.
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I didn't want to be a slave to any passion anymore. I gave up card playing altogether, even bridge and gambling - more or less. It took me a few years to get out of it.
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Necessity makes even the timid brave.
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The father figure doesn't impress me. I have a very friendly relationship with my father, but that wasn't always the case. My mother had custody, and I only saw him every other weekend. I never knew him well enough for him to inspire me.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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I don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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You have been chosen, and you must therefore use such strength and heart and wits as you have.
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Recreational shopping is the shortest distance between two points: you and broke.
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It is not wealth one asks for, but just enough to preserve one's dignity, to work unhampered, to be generous, frank and independent.
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Every time we moved on, I joined a different class in a different school with different girls until, aged 13, my father had taken the decision to pull me out of school altogether. Everything I needed, he reasoned, could be found within the rich language of Shakespeare's plays at which, by then, I was something of an old hand.
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I do like a lot of things that a lot of adults would scoff at. 'SpongeBob SquarePants,' 'Looney Tunes.'
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There are staples to my show. I have to be conscious about switching things up because I know people who saw me last year will say, 'He did that last time.' But if certain things work, they work.
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I knew that it was my only shot to be taken seriously in the recording industry, because it's fast and broad.
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When I go out and I see the genuine appreciation from the people, that's a big thing for me.
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I love the power of celebrity because you can give voice to the voiceless.
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But I loved making Eat Pray Love, and I loved working with Julia Roberts.
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Love is dangerous; it's not something to be trifled with. As good as it feels on the way in, it feels that much worse on the way out.
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They trampled the world with their sick and twisted and crooked kind of love. The bastard didn’t think that anyone else’s love mattered at all. As if a father’s love knew everything, could see everything, could cure everything. And what would have happened if that man, Robert Lawson, had been allowed to keep his son? What would have fucking happened then? Men like him and Mando, they didn’t understand anything but their own imperfect hearts. That was their sickness—that they believed themselves to be the center of all light. That kind of light was a darkness of the land. A plague that was killing them all.
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The only right stewardship is that which is tested by the rule of love.
