Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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I live in Las Vegas with my family, and I never realized what my parents would go through to get me to a five-minute audition.
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The junior senator from Wisconsin, by his reckless charges, has so preyed upon the fears and hatreds and prejudices of the American people that he has started a prairie fire which neither he nor anyone else may be able to control.
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I don't have anything interesting to conceal or reveal in my private life, and it is really only my work and professional life that I want to talk about.
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The fame that goes with wealth and beauty is fleeting and fragile; intellectual superiority is a possession glorious and eternal.
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Being a good songwriter means paying attention and sticking your hand out the window to catch the song on the way to someone else's house!
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I have an hourglass shape, and I think it's important to understand your body type and your personality type. Then make whatever is on trend and in fashion work for you.
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In reality I have said very little things; I didn't point out many things to Geoffrey, I trusted very much not only his understanding of what I was doing, or what I wanted to do, in that moment.
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As a kid, I was always into art at the same time as computers, and eventually I realised I was making more interesting stuff with my keyboard than with my hands. I really enjoyed modifying computer games more than playing them, so that got me into programming.
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'I’ve never seen a soft heart turn hard,' said Taleswapper. 'At least not without good reason.'
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Other lands became a larder full of all the good things All we had to do was go and take Blood the colour of the rain that grew our wicked harvest Black the colour icing on our cake
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If Canada could simply apply the basic principles of sustainable development, such as the internalization of costs and 'polluters pay,' it would have long-term beneficial effects, both environmental and economic.
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In 1984, I managed Walter Mondale's campaign for president. Mondale won the nomination after a bruising battle with Colorado Senator Gary Hart and Reverend Jesse Jackson.
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I got a strong spirit that I rely on and go into. It allows me to prepare and drive forward.
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For me, the issue is if I'm your advocate, if I'm your representative, my job is to stand up for you and talk about you and defend you.
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I'm not one of these directors, so far, that wants to have a whole separate director's cut of these things. So far they've turned out to be kind of the length that they wanted to be.
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I was obsessed with Nancy Drew growing up - I couldn't get enough.
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When you're a guest star on a movie or a TV show, I always say it's like being invited to a family reunion, but it's not your family. So you don't belong - they're being nice to you, but you don't fit in completely; you don't know everybody's story. You don't have a history.
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Your life is a reflection of your thoughts. If you change your thinking, you change your life.
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On the plane home I remember thinking that I am who I am because I have faith in myself, and it has always been the possibility of emotionally rewarding the experiences that has encouraged me to gamble on myself; those experiences have made all that I do worthwhile.
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Regarding the debate about faith and works: It's like asking which blade in a pair of scissors is most important.
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Christianity has not conquered nationalism; the opposite has been the case nationalism has made Christianity its footstool.
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Obama learned from Ronald Reagan that it helps to strike an optimistic tone. But genuine optimism deriving from American exceptionalism, it turns out, does not come naturally to him.
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Real faith is refined in the fires and storms of pain.
