Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
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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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The ruling ideas of each age have ever been the ideas of its ruling class.
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Anna Wintour has guided me.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.
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I understand those who don't like me.
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I don't dwell on success. Maybe that's one reason I'm successful.
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There is no such source of error as the pursuit of truth.
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The music led to the acting. But movies aren't something you can just will yourself into. Someone has to choose you, and you have to be quite fortunate to be chosen.
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I think it kind of took being a character actor to kind of now enter into leading ladies.
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I have a very personal interest. I am a Miami-Dade voter. One of the issues is that my vote and so many other votes of women and African Americans in Florida are being discounted or discarded. I want my vote to count.
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It is tough to say what has influenced me the most because I know that Mozart makes me think better, but you cannot beat Dave Matthews for feeling good!
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Beauty is an asset, just like physical prowess, charisma, brains or emotional intelligence. The key with any gift is in the way that you use it. It doesn't define you as a person. Rather, it's an asset to be used judiciously and with an understanding of how it is just a small part of who you are.
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Education is that whole system of human training within and without the school house walls, which molds and develops men.
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We want Quora to last forever, and in order to last forever, it's going to need to have revenue. One of the best things about ads is that you don't need to exclude anyone.
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A film of my life would never happen!
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My life is full of mistakes. They're like pebbles that make a good road.
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The aesthetic came along the way, I think - just through experimenting, and going on tour, and trying stuff out on stage, having fun with it, and not taking it too seriously. If I had a ballgown at home, I'd wear it onstage. If I found something in a charity shop, I'd wear it. That's where it grew from - just wanting to play dress-up.
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Oh God, are you supposed to collect things? I don't collect things. I like throwing things away.
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What's on the page dictates a lot of what I do. When the words are there, it's easy.
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A child's learning is a function more of the characteristics of his classmates than those of the teacher.
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You could have all the tools in the world, but if you really don't want to be there, or if there's something that's off course that's playing on your mind... the game of golf is so mental, and if you don't have everything in the right order, it's very difficult to win golf tournaments.
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It’s foolish to talk of an “Asian century” or an “emerging market century” because events move at a pace that renders this degree of durability obsolete.
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We cannot be too careful about the words we use; we start out using them and they end up using us.
