John Ortberg Quotes
Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.
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Magneto wants to cope with the difficulties thrust upon him by society and by his own nature.
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As a very young girl, I understood that the interior activities of the home are as significant as the exterior activities of society.
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The horror genre is not my favorite. I think it's fun, there's a great place for it and I get a kick out of it, but some stuff I'm too old for. You can't just take 10 guys and stick them in a cabin and off them one at a time - I'm not vested.
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One of the banners I would put up in front of any American president and new administration is 'Do not overreact to your predecessors' policies.'
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All of the agreed-upon pariahs throughout pop-culture history put their identities into the thing we decry. And yet we derive our own identities from the act of hating. We connect on the things we are disappointed in. Some may argue that nothing in history gathers a crowd like complaining about Lady Gaga's meat dress.
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At night, I love dressing up. I love putting on an outfit.
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You can take the boy out of Bombay; you can't take Bombay out of the boy, you know.
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I began to study martial arts because it was a great form of exercise, and I knew it would help my acting career. Martial arts reminded me of dancing. It has helped me learn fight sequences quicker.
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I think it's possible to be multi-rooted, rather like a banyan tree, without being deracinated.
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The difference between Tinted Windows and Hanson shows is a lot of just repertoire. Hanson has been a band for years - we have a lot of songs to pull from and it's a different dynamic - a common kind of thread. With Tinted Windows - it's kind of a little like 'hey, we're this new band.'
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Only then, approaching my fortieth birthday, I made philosophy my life's work.
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The mullahs are part of the past in Iran, not its future. But change in Iran will come through engagement, not through confrontation.
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A man of genius has been seldom ruined but by himself.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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For more than 20 years, on every one of the great issues of freedom and security, John Kerry has been more wrong, more weak and more wobbly than any other national figure.
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I'm an actor, so I am always scared. You never know if you are on vacation or that you have been retired and they just didn't tell you.
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A film set is the most comfortable place I could be in the world; that's what I know.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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Gossip is just news running ahead of itself in a red satin dress.
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Throughout the world, terrorists are actively seeking their next recruit. Alarmingly, terrorist organizations are increasingly targeting school-age children as the next generation of terrorists.
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For most of my life, I did deliberately lead a private life and inadvertently led a public life.
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I want to sell out arenas and make an album and work with some of the best artists in the world.
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I was fortunate to work with actors who loved music too. Just seeing what it would do to their manner and their faces was great and it helped give the story a little more soul.
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Spiritual formation is for everyone. Just as there is an 'outer you' that is being formed and shaped all the time, like it or not, by accident or on purpose, so there is an 'inner you.' You have a spirit. And it's constantly being shaped and tugged at: by what you hear and watch and say and read and think and experience.
