John Ortberg Quotes
Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.
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Whenever I go to a new city, whether visiting or vacationing, I would always make that a point to get to the record store early on, just to get my bearings and see what was going on around town.
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Experience, already reduced to a group of impressions, is ringed round for each one of us by that thick wall of personality through which no real voice has ever pierced on its way to us, or from us to that which we can only conjecture to be without.
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When I started out back in Louisville, there was Harry Collins. He was my first teacher. He saw that I was so obsessed with magic that he taught me the love of magic.
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Maybe the real secret to America's greatness is that we hate one another.
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In real life, I'm polite and nice all the time. It's fun to play people who aren't. It's escapism.
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I posed nude to show my parents they couldn't dictate to me any more - that I control my life.
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I think music needs danger; it needs risk.
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Scepticism, that dry caries of the intelligence.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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I don't really see myself as a celebrity, but more as a sort of mitre.
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Here or henceforward it is all the same to me, I accept Time absolutely.
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Kosovo today is closer to Europe than other countries in the region of South Eastern Europe.
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The regime is afraid of the people because it knows that free and fair elections will bring about its end.
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If you take anything I say with any seriousness whatsoever, go study Yang style tai chi. It will make you live longer.
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I am a firm believer in the people. If given the truth, they can be depended upon to meet any national crisis. The great point is to bring them the real facts.
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I was getting offers. I had just turned them down. Then I realized I should be grateful that at age 54, people were still offering me film roles.
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I have no problem being mainstream. I grew up in the '90s when the mainstream was amazing.
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My choice was to ruin my son's life by giving him money or giving 90-plus percent to charity. Not much of a choice.
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I did 'The Grey,' and it was very intense and emotional because we're in the wilderness, and it was always 30 degrees. You kind of lose your sense of reality in the fact that you're filming a movie.
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First and foremost it's important that we're able to put something back in the game, which we have always done. We're doing this to help needy charities along with the police forces in different towns and cities.
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The unknown makes people uncomfortable. And even living in a city that's as cosmopolitan as New York City is, there's so many things I don't know about other cultures, even though I encounter other cultures - maybe even 18 or 19 of them - when I get on a subway car every day.
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There are just lots of possibilities in the world...I need to keep my mind open for what could happen and not decide that the world is hopeless if what I want to happen doesn't happen. Because something else great might happen in between.
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Tithing is like training wheels when it comes to giving. It's intended to help you get started, but not recommended for the Tour de France.
