John Piper (John Stephen Piper) Quotes
There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.
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Every burn on my body has had its own different personality. And all of them needed different things.
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Versace designs have always been bootlegged. Now it's Versace bootlegging the bootleg for the bootleggers to bootleg the bootleg.
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My original name was Juaquin, and my cousin couldn't pronounce my name right. So he'd just be saying 'Waka! Waka!' So when I was younger, I used to always laugh, then my man Gucci gave me the rest of the name.
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If you fire people, you fire customers.
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People think that Israelis are mean, evil people who only want to hurt Arabs all day.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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Terrorism cannot be isolated from its political, historical, and even social context.
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Conservatives like to insist that their judges are strict constructionists, giving the Constitution and statutes their precise meaning and no more, while judges like Ms. Sotomayor are activists. But there is no magic right way to interpret terms like 'free speech' or 'due process' - or potato chip.
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I know the situations that we do every week are all ones that I encounter in my life or will encounter.
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That strain once more; it bids remembrance rise.
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National character is only another name for the particular form which the littleness, perversity and baseness of mankind take in every country. Every nation mocks at other nations, and all are right.
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I believe one of the reasons we went through such a remarkable growth period was that we had this atmosphere of free discussion.
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I didn't have to look like Jughead to have him be my favorite character.
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I buy Dries van Noten shoes. I love his clothes, too.
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A lot of comics make good actors. Actors make bad comics. They can't do it the other way round.
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In the current law we're seeing Social Security dwindle. And so what we're saying is if we're going to reduce taxes we just want to make sure that there are things within the law that pay for it.
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Honestly, I don't know what 'having it all' means. I do my best - that's what I want my daughters to see.
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You have some people that's weak, and you have some people that's strong. I consider myself a very strong person.
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Just the fact that a thousand people in front of me were ready to hear me sing was one of the best feelings I can think of.
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If God sees that my spiritual life will be furthered by giving the things for which I ask, then He will give them, but that is not the end of prayer. The end of prayer is that I come to know God Himself.
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Something very beautiful happens to people when their world has fallen apart: a humility, a nobility, a higher intelligence emerges at just the point when our knees hit the floor. Perhaps, in a way, that's where humanity is now: about to discover we're not as smart as we thought we were, will be forced by life to surrender our attacks and defenses which avail us of nothing, and finally break through into the collective beauty of who we really are.
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The whole idea of celebrity is flattering - it helps you get into restaurants and stuff - but once you obtain some creative fulfillment, which you do on a nightly basis as a comedian, it's hard to give that up just to be the wacky neighbor on a show.
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Occasionally I volunteer in the kitchen of a pop-up supper club in L.A., which I really love. It's like being a line cook in a great restaurant for one night at a time.
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There are many pointers in the Bible concerning the rightness, the goodness, the beauty, the justice, the preciousness of racial harmony and diversity.
