John Ortberg Quotes
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There are no benefactors in Canada because there is no incentive.
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Today I know that there is still work to be done, but along the way my I am achieving my dreams.
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For many older Americans who identify as lesbian, gay, bisexual, or transgender, a lifetime of discrimination has undermined their right to a retirement with dignity.
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I used to have the 'Best Of Eddie Murphy' VHS tape that I wore out completely, watching it over and over again. His 'Buckwheat Sings' is, to this day, one of my all-time favorite sketches on the show. I also loved the one where he plays the Tooth Fairy.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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You have to open up on stage.
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I had a teacher at school who said, 'We are going to do a play next year, and you're in it.' He said, 'You should try out for the Royal Academy as an actor.' I did and got in. I was 17. My mum wasn't too happy, but it worked out OK.
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My best investment is my imagination, because it has never failed to bring me my greatest returns!
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It's rare for me to read any fiction. I almost only read nonfiction. I don't believe in guilty pleasures, I only believe in pleasures. People who call reading detective fiction or eating dessert a guilty pleasure make me want to puke.
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Carey Mulligan and Felicity Jones are two of my favorites. I'm not so much younger than them. I like that. It's kind of aspirational.
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I had never seen 'Vogue.' I didn't read fashion magazines, I read 'Time' and 'Newsweek.'
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The surest method of being incomprehensible or, moreover, to be misunderstood is to use words in their original sense; especially words from the ancient languages.
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I aim for a lifetime full of movies.
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Throughout America's young history there has been a necessary tension between the individual and the group.
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I am in the hands of Deori Maa. Every time I come to Ranchi, I visit her temple. I still remember my first visit.
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I don't know what my path is yet. I'm just walking on it.
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If a white cloth is stained even with a small spot, the stain appears very ugly indeed. So the smallest fault of a holy man becomes painfully prominent.
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I never feel like there's any one point to the film, to anything, to any of the movies I've made.
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I read everything I could find in English - Twain, Henry James, Hemingway, really everything. And then after a while I started writing shorter pieces in English, and one of them got published in a literary magazine and that's how it got started. After that, graduate school didn't seem very important.
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The greater a man's talents, the greater his power to lead astray. It is better that one should suffer than that many be corrupted.
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I think it takes time to find your natural style and learn not to be swayed by trends that might not flatter you.
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Churches can become places of cynicism, resistance, and pessimism.
