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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The market for local advertising is in the billions.
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Just as appetite comes by eating, so work brings inspiration, if inspiration is not discernible at the beginning.
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If my own struggles have taught me anything, it is that my greatest need is to know God better, and I am not alone.
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As long as I hold tightly to something, I believe I own it. But when I give it away, I relinquish control, power, and prestige. When I realize that God has a claim not merely on the few dollars I might choose to throw in an offering plate, not simply on 10 percent or even 50 percent, but on 100 percent of "my" money, it's revolutionary. If I'm God's money manager, I'm not God. Money isn't God. God is God. So God, money, and I are each put in our rightful place.
