John Ortberg Quotes
My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.
Quotes to Explore
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Nothing is unfilmable.
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When I graduated from university I tried to buy a beeper, and it cost me $250. My pay at the time was $10 a month.
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Wong Kar-wai and Ang Lee are two Asian directors I'm really fond of.
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It was hard at school because, growing up, some people wanted to be friends with me just because they wanted to get to my dad and say that they had met him and had gone to our house. I didn't understand it at the time, but the older I got and the more aware of it I became, it started becoming hard.
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There's so much pressure, but I think if you really love it, if you truly love it, and it's your passion to sing, then that's what will get through. I think if you don't have that, you'll realise quickly.
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We adore chaos because we love to produce order.
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You're always facing the top defenders in this league. To go out there and do your best, that's all you can ask for.
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Capitalist systems function less well without state protection of investors, lenders, and companies against monopoly, deception, and fraud.
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Jerusalem is united, will never be divided again.
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I train to fight five rounds, but if we can end the fight in the first round, it's even better.
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The way I look at it you can always get better.
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I wanted to start working on something that had a lasting effect.
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I have a theory about that, if you have to say something, if you have encourage for one second a prospective acting student - he should not go in to acting.
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All of the very important events in my life happen by chance.
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I'm still so young, so I feel like people have wanted to keep me in a 'no-makeup' fresh type of look - sometimes artists are a little afraid of really putting the makeup on me.
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Educate yourself: Read up on current events and books.
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Industrial agriculture characteristically proceeds by single solutions to single problems: If you want the most money from your land this year, grow the crops for which the market price is highest.
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We need to stop building our churches around categories and start building them around people.
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For 35 years, I've said, 'I'll never go solo.' But after a period of time - and this isn't just for an artist, but for anybody - all the things you never wanted to do eventually become the only things left that you haven't done. So they start looking pretty interesting.
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Just because a man lacks the use of his eyes doesn't mean he lacks vision.
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You're basing your laws and your whole outlook on natural life on mythology. It won't work. That's why you have all these problems in the world. Name them: India, Pakistan, Ireland. Name them-all these problems. They're all religious problems.
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My main job is to live with deep contentment, joy, and confidence in my everyday experience of life with God. Everything else is job number two.
