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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The art of pictorial creation is so complicated - it is so astronomical in its possibilities of relation and combination that it would take an act of super-human concentration to explain the final realization.
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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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The words of Christ are of more worth than the opinions of all the physicians in the universe.
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John McConnell may have used the phrase Earth Day before we did, (but) he knows our events were not similar. Ours was a political exercise. His was a peace exercise.
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The Oscar nomination is the best marketing you can get.
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I feel like I was in the last graduating class of commercial actors.
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Without pay, no human being will work up to their ability if he or she is not cared for and respected.
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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.
