John Ortberg Quotes
Quotes to Explore
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The deadliest foe to virtue would be complete self-knowledge.
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It's fun to get really intense and emotionally detailed and complicated.
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I'm a woman who eventually will get married and have kids - adopted at this point - but I see myself with a family and less time to commit to wanting to be a lead character.
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Culturally, the First World War is the war that stands in for other wars.
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I hate to witness animals in captivity - or see circus elephants paraded down the streets. When animals are caged, it's a loss of what they are.
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Women always excel men in that sort of wisdom which comes from experience. To be a woman is in itself a terrible experience.
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I learned that when you stand up for what you believe in, you'll get a lot of support. But there are always going to be negative things said about you.
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I have this first album that sells more than 100,000 copies in its first week, debuts at number two, goes gold, the single goes platinum, we're doing Madison Square Garden.
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But the issue has to do with land, which is our land.
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Library campaigners are not prepared to stand by and watch something they cherish be dismantled brick by brick.
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Space excites me. My dream is to go to space.
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Movies don't have borders.
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What I love about L.A. and Washington, D.C. is that they're almost the opposite of each other. L.A. is a very creative space while D.C. is a very cerebral space. So, they're the ying and the yang in my world. I like them both for their own reasons.
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The biographies and autobiographies are on the whole more impressive than the fiction of the last two decades, but the freakish best sellers among them are least likely to withstand the test of time.
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I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
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It's hard to write a comedy sketch.
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What we see today is an American economy that has boomed because of policies and developments of the 1950s and '60s: the interstate-highway system, massive funding for science and technology, a public-education system that was the envy of the world and generous immigration policies.
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It's my personal opinion, and I firmly believe, that it's important that I keep sports and politics separate.
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Heartbreak is life educating us.
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I don't think I've ever not had a dark side. But one of the wonderful reasons why you go into this business is that half your life you live in a fantasy, which is somebody else's life. It's actually a great release because you're not having to deal with the itty-bitty bits of life.
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What do women do when they get together? We sit around and talk! Men, not so much. My theory is that this difference is genetic and dates back to the hunter-gatherer societies, when the men had to be quiet as they hunted, lest they scare away the bison and then everyone starved to death and it was all their fault.
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In tactics, action is the governing rule of war.
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Death is the prerequisite to resurrection, the new life God intends.
