John Owen Quotes
The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.
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The Lebanese people voted this time for change. So they are not satisfied with the actual situation. They want to see a new government. They want to see a new vision.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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We must stop the trend of closing schools and building prisons.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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When you make a commitment to a relationship, you invest your attention and energy in it more profoundly because you now experience ownership of that relationship.
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Anything that encourages people to pick up an instrument and play, I'm fully behind.
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I hardly ever write when I'm just feeling great.
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Kennedy was a man who liked writers and even I got invited to the White House.
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I come from the working-class area of Stockholm, and I grew up with Serbian and Chilean people.
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You make your mistakes to learn how to get to the good stuff.
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In 1921, Harry Houdini started his own film company called - wait for it - the Houdini Picture Corporation.
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My son has taken liking for sports and is most of the time playing cricket and football. It is so much fun being with them, as I'm enjoying every phase of motherhood.
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You don't particularly want to stay close to your ex-wife. Or why would she be your ex-wife?
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Comic strips are like a public utility. They're supposed to be there 365 days a year, and you're supposed to be able to hit the mark day after day.
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On 'Grey's Anatomy' I wouldn't care what I was playing - I would play a corpse, 'cause I love it that much. It is deep true love, and it will never die.
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You are the music while the music lasts.
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I think that humor has become a principle means of communication among Americans about politics.
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As the earth spins through space, a view from above the North Pole would encompass most of the wealth of the world - most of its food, productive machines, doctors, engineers and teachers. A view from the opposite pole would encompass most of the world's poor.
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Hegel is correct: we learn from history that we cannot learn from it.
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Life is tons of discipline. Your first discipline is your vocabulary; then your grammar and your punctuation.
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Neurotechnology may benefit from questioning what kinds of low-information-content signals we can read and write before we try to upload and download consciousness.
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My wife cooks, I clean. Then I go to practice, come home, and take a two hour nap. I wake up, shave my head, then it's time to ball.
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The house built on the sand may oftentimes be built higher, have more fair parapets and battlements, windows and ornaments, than that which is built upon the rock; yet all gifts and privileges equal not one grace.
