C. S. Lewis Quotes
Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. J.I. Packer
Quotes to Explore
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Every morning I wake up and thank God.
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There's nowhere like Detroit; it's a modern necropolis: all these art deco masterpieces crumbling away.
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Sometimes you have to rest in certain games, but I want to play in every game.
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In this era in which we live, the old-fashioned virtues grow increasingly unpopular.
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I want to be able to make people laugh and cry and feel happy or sad and feel all these different emotions through singing and acting. Hopefully throughout my career, I'll get to pursue them.
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People are patronizing the theatres with renewed enthusiasm - there is an entire picnic-like attitude when families go out to see movies, which is a very good sign. They want to see larger-than-life characters on the big screen and not just watch movies on television or on DVDs.
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I don't think I'm really open to having Washington change me.
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I do make a good ragu pasta, which everyone seems to like. Or that could be just me talking; who knows what they really think. I actually stole the recipe from my older sister Vera, who also loves to cook. I took all my recipes from her.
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I liked English and art and did a lot of painting. And for some reason I was good at math, but I wasn't an A student. I really had to work hard to get good grades.
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
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I went through the extremes of amazing notoriety and also the dreaded things that you never thought you'd have to live through. Not everything works the way you want it to, but if I sit back and think, 'Am I happy about this?' Yeah. I wouldn't have done anything any better.
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There is a communion of more than our bodies when bread is broken and wine drunk.
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It's hard not to play golf that's up to Jack Nicklaus standards when you are Jack Nicklaus.
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Excellence always sells.
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I got a gymnastics scholarship to college, fell in love with my true love of my whole life - who I'm married to now - and he was a virgin too. It was very romantic.
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We men are easily prone to sins of thought. Therefore, He who has formed each heart individually, knowing that the impulse received from the intention constitutes the major element in sin, has ordained that purity in the ruling part of our soul be our primary concern.
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There's always a mismatch between small entrepreneurial outfits and large companies, which often don't have the same outlook.
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If you're not bruised up, then you're not doing an action film in a real way.
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I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.
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Never lose the childlike wonder. Show gratitude... Don't complain; just work harder... Never give up.
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Maybe the real subject of every interview is how you really can't learn much of anything about anyone from an interview.
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I have an irregular heartbeat, so that means a fair amount of medication - and I have blood pressure pills, too, but no vitamins or supplements.
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If you're a serious publisher, you publish books because they work. In other words, they are written well; the reader identifies with the characters. The context seems to be real whether he's writing about the French Revolution or the failure of Lehman Brothers.
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Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord. J.I. Packer
