John Calvin Quotes
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It's rare for artists to really stare deeply at themselves in the mirror, literally, because there's constantly a mirror on you.
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Naturally, I was a bit of a curiosity, being the first hydrogen peroxide ingestion patient they had ever seen.
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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.
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Music is universal too. Even deaf people like to dance, love rhythm, and can kind of pick it up.
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I'm a charming coward; I fight with words.
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I think of my customer as a woman who wants to look beautiful and be able to walk.
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Men and animals regard each other across a gulf of mutual incomprehension.
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The first time I heard a Billie Holiday record, I thought, 'What's so great about Billie Holiday?'
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The premium valuation is warranted in our view given the consistently high level of execution, the expansion into other revenue-driving channels such as entertainment and food ... and the improvement in both U.S. and international profitability.
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Prayer is the exercise of drawing on the grace of God.
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How can you smell this good after the kind of crappy day we've had?" "I sweat perfume. Like all girls.
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Self-centered anger generates evil, but wrath at social injustice becomes the driving force for reform. Strong language that censures and combats a great evil often awakens adverse reactions from society, but this must not intimidate those who believe they are right. A lion is a lion because he roars.
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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.
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I am interested in study, reflection, philosophy - but always as a dilettante. I also consider myself a dilettante as a painter.
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Educated fools; from uneducated schools.
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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.
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The neighborhood stores are an important part of a city child's life.
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As investors, we want to believe we are smart, insightful and uniquely talented - even though we often fail to do the heavy lifting, put in the long hours, and make the uncomfortable but necessary decisions to achieve success.
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It is very difficult to explain this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it. The individual feels the nothingness of human desires and aims and the sublimity and marvelous order which reveal themselves both in Nature and in the world of though. He looks upon individual existence as a sort of prison and wants to experience the universe as a single significant whole.
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The majority of the books of our time give one the impression of having been manufactured in a day out of books read the day before.
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The fashion industry really welcomed me with open arms and open hearts. They've been very accepting of my faith. I have strict wardrobe requirements, and that's something they've upheld.
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For our hearts are enfeebled by prosperity, so that we cannot make the effort to pray.
