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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We must be both more conservative and more liberal than most students of Christian worship: conservative in holding exclusively to God's commands in Scripture as our rule of worship, and liberal in defending the liberty of those who apply those.
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Communities don't think, don't believe, don't want, don't have needs, don't have interests and don't make decisions. Only individuals have minds that generate desires and needs - and only individuals can make choices and decisions.
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Every generation has their favorite Spider-Man television show. For a lot of us, it's the one that has the song, 'Spider-Man, Spider-Man, does whatever a spider can.'
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I'm generally considered a conservative in my predictions for disease.
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I wanted to do an episode about Chuck having a gambling problem. I wanted to portray my addiction on the show. But I think it's a little edgy for Saturday night.
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It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.
