John Piper (John Stephen Piper) Quotes
Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.
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I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.
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I think I'm telling the truth. I sat by Ray Perkins at the Hall of Fame dinner in New York, and at that time he didn't know he was our coach and I didn't either.
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You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
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Art is not the application of a canon of beauty but what the instinct and the brain can conceive beyond any canon. When we love a woman we don't start measuring her limbs.
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With legitimate journalists I've always had a great time - I've never gone out of my way to court the press. That's probably cost me some money, but I've always had the respect of my peers.
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As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
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My eldest sister Beth is a doctor who studied at Harvard and Columbia and played basketball for Harvard. She set the athletic and academic standard for the rest of us to follow.
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
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If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
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Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
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I'm happy in Lululemon, with a glass of red wine, watching HGTV.
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To me, cinema is not a movie or a TV screen, and it's not a seat in a building versus one in your living room. It's the art of motion pictures.
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When we were filming 'Twilight,' we didn't expect anything. We were just filming a movie that we wanted the fans to enjoy. And then it kinda just blew into this whole other world.
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Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
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We had some wonderful people raising us, but they still weren't our parents. As you get older, it gets distorted and convoluted, complicated, and, of course, you start looking for attention, affection, affinity in all the wrong places and in all the wrong ways.
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I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.
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Novels are not about expressing yourself, they're about something beautiful, funny, clever and organic. Self-expression? Go and ring a bell in a yard if you want to express yourself.
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I still get so much fan mail addressed to Carol Brady, and I think a lot of it's through the Net. And I always answer it, if it's legible.
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Thought can be so seductive and hypnotic that it absorbs your attention totally, so you become your thoughts.
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We had a very thorough exchange of the different positions of the EU-3 and the new government of Iran.
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Get scared. It will do you good. Smoke a bit, stare blankly at some ceilings, beat your head against some walls, refuse to see some people, paint and write. Get scared some more. Allow your little mind to do nothing but function. Stay inside, go out - I don't care what you'll do; but stay scared as hell. You will never be able to experience everything. So, please, do poetical justice to your soul and simply experience yourself.
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How long will we keep making films where hero-heroine is dancing around trees?
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Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.
