Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.
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My neighborhood didn't really encourage women, though it didn't prevent women from progressing, either.
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Actually, I majored in marketing and I have a bachelor of science.
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I can make them voting machines sing Home Sweet Home.
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Italian was my first foreign language. I speak it better than English.
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We are a weird bunch, we are very disparate.
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Netflix is something I watch.
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When you go from one place to another, you go with experience, you don't go with prescriptions.
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So many people are of mixed heritage; everyone is from somewhere else.
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We shot 'Oblivion' in Iceland; that was amazing. It's so, so beautiful. They didn't have any Waldorf Hotels there, though; we stayed in the middle of nowhere!
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Those who come forward will not be offered an automatic pass to citizenship and should be expected to pay a substantial fine or penalty to participate in the temporary program.
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Certain songs I feel different people should be on different tracks, you know it's emotional. I put myself into characters for certain records.
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Capital, created by the labour of the worker, crushes the worker, ruining small proprietors and creating an army of unemployed.
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The true Mason ever strives to cultivate Masonry in his/her life to the fullest degree possible.
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Flying is absolute freedom. I know the feeling of flying from various aircraft. But there was always something surrounding me that I had to control. As Fusion Man, it's like I am naked, I only have the wings that carry me. It's like a dream.
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Don't look back until you've written an entire draft, just begin each day from the last sentence you wrote the preceeding day. This prevents those cringing feelings, and means that you have a substantial body of work before you get down to the real work which is all in . . . The edit.
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I don't want fans to think we're clean, upstanding American boys, but we are Americans, and we do stand up.
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What is the difference between unethical and ethical advertising? Unethical advertising uses falsehoods to deceive the public; ethical advertising uses truth to deceive the public.
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It wasn't that people wanted things for free and asked for advertising to fund it - it's that these companies wanted to amass an audience whose "eyeballs" they could sell, and they gave people things for free to do that. Free services and content has been foisted upon us because there wasn't the will power to explore other options.
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I deliberately keep myself apart from a lot of stuff; I don't Tweet, I don't do Facebook, I don't blog, and that's largely because I spend my working life staring at a screen and hitting a keyboard, I am trying to cut down on that, not increase it.
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Our kids seldom even get to see a movie. When we go to a movie, it's an event - and we make it an event.
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American culture is probably the least Christian culture that we've ever had because it is so materialistic and it's so full of lies. The whole advertising world is just, it's just intertwined with lies, appealing to the worst of the instincts we have.
