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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For the meaning of life differs from man to man, from day to day and from hour to hour. What matters, therefore, is not the meaning of life in general but rather the specific meaning of a person's life at a given moment.
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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 actually have a degree in music and was aware that music was a tool used in therapy. I didn't realize how far it had come since I was in college in the mid-seventies.
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There are a lot of battles to face, and if I didn't have that religious core - that base to turn to - I would be truly lost.
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I try to make music that's relevant to my life and relatable to the culture I live in.
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Race, to me, is a very blurry thing.
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Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.
