John Ortberg Quotes
People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.John Ortberg
Quotes to Explore
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Anytime you have a tight race and you lose, it's not pleasant.
Vern Buchanan -
The mind is but too naturally prone to pleasure, but too easily yielded to dissipation.
Frances Burney -
Whenever you feel down, you can check on Twitter and feel better about yourself, because it's only people who like you.
Candice Swanepoel -
Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.
Ingrid Newkirk -
I love the Victorian era, and I always have, but I had a leg up on the writing because I was familiar with a lot of the science from the Victorian era. And that led to a massive interest in the science of this time of history.
Gail Carriger -
If you want to talk about cultural appropriation, we have to go back to the Greeks.
Frances McDormand
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The thing is, people can't complain about profit-oriented moves if they're only interested in profit themselves. You can't have it both ways. If they're willing to polish up a gift and sell it to make money, they can't really complain about the fact that somebody above them has sold them down the river. That's the way it goes.
Ian MacKaye -
Working with the dying is like being a midwife for this great rite of passage of death. Just as a midwife helps a being take their first breath, you help a being take their last breath.
Ram Dass -
True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
E. O. Wilson -
Nobody can write better jokes putting me down than me.
Garry Shandling -
To change criminal justice policy in any meaningful way means to propose changing a very longstanding system. It's not realistic to think you can do it overnight.
Kamala Harris -
I rarely draw what I see. I draw what I feel in my body.
Barbara Hepworth
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My dad showed me loads of films when I was young, but I never thought I would be in movies. That didn't seem like a real job to me.
Maika Monroe -
As a television actor, I was held to a tight, rigid structure.
Taylor Sheridan -
Have fun, be active. Ride a bike instead of driving, for example.
Dan Buettner -
Anthropomorphic animals, when taken out of narrative into actual visibility, always turn into buffoonery or nightmare.
C. S. Lewis -
When I was at Brown, I wanted to write the great American novel, but I was too scared to take a creative course. I signed up for one, got in, and just didn't have the courage to go. I was a tremendously shy person, almost pathologically shy. The thought of peers critiquing my work - oh, God.
Nathaniel Philbrick -
I asked my daughter when she was 16, What's the buzz on the street with the kids? She's going, to be honest, Dad, most of my friends aren't into Kiss. But they've all been told that it's the greatest show on Earth.
Ace Frehley Kiss
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I want to start really developing more on the film side.
Kenya Barris -
I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.
LeVar Burton -
I'm the youngest of four siblings and the baby of the family. My family just treated me like anyone else growing up. They taught me that everyone has a special and unique trait about them, and that mine is that I have a girl brain and a boy body.
Jazz Jennings -
A person with a new idea is a crank until the idea succeeds.
Mark Twain -
I feel very creatively satisfied and lucky that I get to write for other people, but for something I direct, it has to be something I completely understand every facet of.
Nicholas Stoller -
People with the strongest and healthiest sense of calling are not obsessed with their calling. They are preoccupied with the Caller.
John Ortberg