John Ortberg Quotes
It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I'm a man that believes what I see, and everywhere I go... and everywhere I've been... I get nothing but love.
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Cross the wrong state border with your gun, or wake up one morning to new legislation or a new presidential executive order, and suddenly you're the bad guy, not the good guy. No wonder some gun owners seem so touchy; they feel, at some level, like criminals in waiting.
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Nationalized industries are notorious for their inability to operate at a profit.
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When thought becomes excessively painful, action is the finest remedy.
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I love being a part of Aqua Teen.
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Working with kids can be tricky because they can be pretty unpredictable.
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One drawing demands to become a painting, so I start to work on that, and then the painting might demand something else. Then the painting might say, 'I want a companion, and the companion should be like this,' so I have to find that, either by drawing it myself or locating the image.
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I don't know, I like to go on really different types of dates. Going someplace new or some new part of the city, something that's not your average thing. Something where you just go have an adventure together.
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I think music sharing of any kind is great.
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Film has always been where my heart is.
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I am not, and have no interest in being, a musician of any kind.
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It's funny, because readers think they want the characters to be blissfully happy, but it makes it kind of boring for the reader.
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People forget that although we can pinpoint the price, we can only guess at future earnings. The past isn't much help: It simply tells whether a market was pricey or cheap.
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I don't know what more to say. I mean, we're all going to die in a world that is worse than when we entered it.
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I have always done work to which my heart says yes.
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Certainly, my father would not want to see me destroy myself in this business, as so many people in our family have been destroyed. I try to take good care of myself, but we are fighting the good fight, and the truth is powerful.
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I had a really hard time when I was 16, 17, 18. I started with the eating disorder in high school.
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With regard to philosophical metaphysics, I always see increasing numbers who have attained to the negative goal, but as yet few who climb a few rungs backwards; one ought to look out, perhaps, over the last steps of the ladder, but not try to stand upon them.
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The lighthearted moments of 'Girls' are really not speckled throughout and that to me is just super exciting, to be able to delve into the darkness that you are greeted with in your early 20s and the fear and what that makes you do, the places that you can potentially go with that.
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I'm against having a Fed. It's socialism in its worst form. But until the Fed is gotten rid of, the only economic variable the poor have to counteract the injustices of the Fed is the minimum wage law.
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'Your nephew plays.' 'My nephew and his friends practice.' 'He would do better to look to his soul.' 'He has no soul, he's a soldier.'
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It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.
