Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I guess I'll go to my grave as the Dodger, but at least I've made my mark on show-business history.
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Music, which should pulsate with life, needs new means of expression, and science alone can infuse it with youthful vigor.
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I believe in numbers and signs.
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The forces of division have begun to raise their ugly head again … It reminds me: We've got a tragic history when it comes to race in this country. A lot of pent-up anger and mistrust and bitterness. This country wants to move beyond these kinds of things.
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I am very fond of the company of ladies. I like their beauty, I like their delicacy, I like their vivacity, and I like their silence.
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Right knows no boundaries and justice no frontiers; the brotherhood of man is not a domestic institution.
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So instead of watching TV, we read every night together as a family.
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For many of us, clean water is so plentiful and readily available that we rarely, if ever, pause to consider what life would be like without it.
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There was never a time when I wasn't making guitars out of cardboard or dressing up like the Misfits.
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For a two-hour movie on a 20-day shooting schedule, it's O.K. to have an actor who's a pain in the neck.
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I think that fanaticism is terrific. As long as you don't have to live with it. Oh, yes, nobody should marry a writer.
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I don't know how to function without music. When I'm not making it, I'm listening to it. It gives me courage and takes care of my mind.
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The meals were served in a large hall, in which Moctezuma was accustomed to eat, and the dishes quite filled the room, which was covered with mats and kept very clean.
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New York has changed amazingly; it's gentrified everywhere, and it's a much gentler place.
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I love portobello mushrooms. I often say that if I were vegetarian, I would live off of these. Now, it would never happen, but it's still nice to know that they exist. So meaty, so flavorful.
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We go there with confidence, but we know there is a very fine line between success and failure in this game.
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God isn't trying to make our lives easier; He wants to make them more meaningful.
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We live in an age in which only one prejudice is tolerated - anti-Christian bigotry... Today, the only group you can hold up to public mockery is Christians. Attacks on the Church and Christianity are common.
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I've lived in Kansas for more than thirty years, and for half of those, I was part of a ranching family, so I'm writing about things I know and love.
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Greed and lust I can understand, but I can't understand the values of definition and confinement. Definition destroys. Besides, there's nothing definite in this world.
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Waiting means going about our assigned tasks, confident that God will provide the meaning and the conclusions.
