John Ortberg Quotes
There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that make sense and have integrity but overlap significantly.
Quotes to Explore
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You can't choose up sides on a round world.
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I love to be with my son and my grandchildren, like normal people. I have no particular idea of what I represent to other people. It's very mysterious to me. I don't understand it.
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I'm a very interior person. I love silence. I revel in it. I'm happy that way.
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The characters I've portrayed may outwardly be quite different from one another, but I've found that they're also intrinsically linked.
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As a child, I had the opportunity to meet the captain onboard a British Airways flight. It was so exciting to see the cockpit and controls. I was in awe of the captain, and he stamped my log book, which I still have to this day.
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I kinda went through a semi-depression. Honestly. Like, I lost myself.
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Whoever thinks of stopping the uprising before it achieves its goals, I will give him ten bullets in the chest.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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It had never occurred to me before that music and thinking are so much alike. In fact you could say music is another way of thinking, or maybe thinking is another kind of music.
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One time I went into a restroom and a girl followed me in. I signed an autograph for her in the sink. It was pretty funny because she was in a guy's restroom and she wasn't embarrassed at all.
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Long view of history shows evil triumphing more often than we'd like to admit. That's just how it is. I don't despair too much about dying, either. It's just a fact of being human.
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I think of myself as a musician and not a celebrity. Celebrity status is something you have to deliberately pursue - I couldn't imagine myself seeking that.
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Domestic goddesses have infiltrated everybody's lives and raised the bar way too high.
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Since I was 15 years old I have dedicated my life to serving women.
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I wanted to keep pushing the musical ideas I had about jazz, music from Africa and the Caribbean.
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The martyrologies are catalogues in which are to be found the names of the saints with the days and places of their deaths and, generally, with the distinctive character of their sanctity and with an historic summary of their lives.
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I love acting, but I want to explore other things.
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Shopping for hijabs has always been fun for me. I was so excited to begin wearing a headscarf. I had always looked up to my mother as she wore hers, and I was eager to emulate her beauty and the wonderful things she represented.
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Contemporary fiction is the hardest for me because I am not really in the popular culture - I don't watch TV.
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Back in those early days when I began my apprenticeship as a poet, I also tried to voice our anger, spirit of defiance and resistance in a Jamaican poetic idiom.
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I never met a kid I liked.
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No friend to Love like a long voyage at sea.
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I do remember that I was sitting in the make-up chair before the shoots for a commercial or film or other, and I thought: Sometime soon they are going to make a close-up of me and millions of people can see how many pimples I've got on my cheeks.
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There are no clear boundary lines between what is physiological, what is psychological, and what is spiritual. Those are language domains that make sense and have integrity but overlap significantly.
