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 -
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 -
You have no power at all if you do not exercise constant power.
Major Owens -
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 -
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 -
As chief elections officer, it's my job to protect the integrity of the ballot.
Kate Brown
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The one word that no politician will ever speak, is 'enough.' Enough.
Carl Hiaasen -
If vaudeville had died, television was the box they put it in.
Larry Gelbart -
Nothing turns out to be so oppressive and unjust as a feeble government.
Edmund Burke -
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 -
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 -
Actually, I'm 5-8 and change without shoes. With shoes, 5-9.
Nate Robinson
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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.
Natalie Cole -
I don't weigh a pound over one hundred and eighty and, what's more, I never did.
Fatty Arbuckle -
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 -
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 -
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 -
There's some of Romeo's romance in me... I romanticise a lot of things in my mind.
Leonardo DiCaprio
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The people of these states were victimized twice. First they were victimized by the hurricane. Second they were victimized by the ineptness of the government response.
Barbara Mikulski -
Better to stay alive," I said. "At least while there's a chance to get free." I thought of the sleeping pills in my bag and wondered just how great a hypocrite I was. It was so easy to advise other people to live with their pain.
Octavia E. Butler -
Without television and mass communication, that knowledge wouldn't exist. So I think it actually has the possibility of turning people into more understanding and more empathetic people.
John Warnock -
The race is not always to the swift, nor the battle to the strong, but that's the way to bet.
Damon Runyon -
Urban transport is a political and not a technical issue. The technical aspects are very simple. The difficult decisions relate to who is going to benefit from the models adopted.
Enrique Penalosa -
Few things give rise to imprecise rhetoric like the issue of race. It's understandable, but damaging.
John Piper