John Ortberg Quotes
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I always regret leaving home if I don't get at least four or five surfs in the week before I leave. I try to be in the water as much as possible before leaving, and it's the one thing I miss massively.
Flume -
Your life is like a play with several acts. Some of the characters who enter have short roles to play, others, much larger. Some are villains and others are good guys. But all of them are necessary; otherwise, they wouldn't be in the play. Embrace them all, and move on to the next act.
Wayne Dyer -
I have born-again Christians in my family, and they are completely against abortion... Everybody's got to stop being afraid of it real soon. Who's going to do it if a woman's network doesn't? People are going to be dying.
Patricia Richardson -
I might bump into them because I live in Belfast, and Belfast is not that big a place. You go for a walk, and you walk past Kit Harington. You go for a meal, and there's Peter Dinklage.
Ian Beattie -
We think nothing of protecting consumers from faulty toasters or unsafe cars. Is it unreasonable to suggest that investors are entitled to information they can trust before investing their hard-earned money? I don't think it's unreasonable at all.
Jackie Speier -
What I'm very concerned about is how do we bolster our self-awareness as humans, as biological organisms?
Mae Jemison
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Like I went out to a predominantly black club last night and nobody said anything and I was wishing somebody would so that someone would dance with me.
Taye Diggs -
It's never fun having to bulk up for a job on an action film, then lose weight for another role. I don't actually mind working out, but it's the diet: I'm half-French, so I love my food, and boiled chicken breast for breakfast is not my idea of a good meal.
Oliver Jackson-Cohen -
I think it's funny when people, they try to imitate the 'Chandelier' video. I think it's hilarious.
Maddie Ziegler -
I just don't believe that when people are being unjustly oppressed that they should let someone else set rules for them by which they can come out from under that oppression.
Malcolm X -
I write novels and other things.
Jack L. Chalker -
Barack Obama's victories in 2008 and 2012 were dismissed by some of his critics as merely symbolic for African Americans. But there is nothing 'mere' about symbols.
Ta-Nehisi Coates
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I like cars. I know some things. I can change my own car and battery and change my own oil.
Natalie Martinez -
The lyrics are so important to me. And that there is something going on in the lyrics. That the song actually has something to say.
Zac Brown Band -
Don't be afraid to look silly.
Tara Strong -
Fiscal discipline is a priority in Romania, and we have already proven we are committed and able to make real progress in this area.
Victor Ponta -
I find it easier to work when it's quiet.
Daniel Day-Lewis -
Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipsae.
Ovid
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Even though L.A Confidential box-office was a fraction of, say, Titanic or the Grinch movie, it finds its audience and will continue doing so for who knows how long, because of the basic thing we love about movies, which is storytelling and performances.
Curtis Hanson -
There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.
Hugh Lofting -
My parents had normal jobs, and I didn't just want to work all day, and so I thought if I could break into music I wouldn't have to work all day. And I had an uncle who was on Broadway, so I was like, 'I have to be able to sing.'
Nate Ruess Fun. -
You can only love and be loved to the extent that you know and are known by somebody.
John Ortberg