John Piper (John Stephen Piper) Quotes

Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.

John Piper

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• I happen to be quite fond of staying out late and sleeping the day away.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Day
  • Happen
  • Late

• 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.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • Time
  • Truth
  • New

• You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.

  

  Major Owens
  • Power
  • Leadership
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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.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • Love
  • Woman
  • Beauty

• 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.

  

  Val Kilmer
  • Time
  • Great
  • Money

• As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.

  

  Kate Brown
  • Job
  • Integrity
  • Protect

• 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.

  

  Abby Wambach
  • She
  • Rest
  • Sister

• The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.

  

  Carl Hiaasen
  • Enough
  • Speak
  • One Word

• If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.

  

  Larry Gelbart
  • Television
  • Box
  • Had

• Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.

  

  Edmund Burke
  • Government
  • Nothing
  • Unjust

• 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.

  

  Ted Sarandos
  • Art
  • Movie
  • Me

• 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.

  

  Taylor Lautner
  • World
  • Movie
  • Enjoy

• Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.

  

  Nate Robinson
  • Change
  • Shoes
  • Without

• 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.

  

  Natalie Cole
  • People
  • Parents
  • Attention

• I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.

  

  Fatty Arbuckle
  • Never
  • More
  • Over

• 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.

  

  Zadie Smith
  • Beautiful
  • Funny
  • Yourself

• 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.

  

  Florence Henderson
  • Think
  • Always
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• Well, I think that the image is a part of me. I wear the baggy pants, the hats, the whole nine. And you know, I may add a little for the excitement and the intrigue in the videos, but my family has told me that little air of mystery that surrounds me is for real.

  

  Aaliyah
  • Real
  • Family
  • May

• I think, if allowed, 3D is a new film language. I can have more adventure exploring a new media, that's very exciting. 2D we know most of it, things haven't changed for decades; it's the same principles, so 3D's more exciting.

  

  Ang Lee
  • Thinking
  • Film
  • Language

• There's less skill and more plain hard work to writing than anyone except a writer thinks.

  

  Mabel Seeley
  • Work
  • Writing

• To those Americans whose support I have yet to earn, I may not have won your vote tonight, but I hear your voices. I need your help. And I will be your president, too.

  

  Barack Obama
  • May
  • Help
  • Support

• I always get scared doing a job. To this day, I start every job thinking, I really can't do this. And what I do when I'm insecure is I tighten up. If you work through the night you can do anything.

  

  Edward Sorel
  • Thinking
  • Job
  • Night

• It's a hard job to become president.

  

  Rick Scott
  • President
  • Become

• Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.

  

  John Piper
  • Race
  • Issue
  • Damaging