Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be - you get a fresh start, your slate's wiped clean. Count yourself lucky - God holds nothing against you and you're holding nothing back from Him.
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There was this old soccer game called 'Goal' for the old Nintendo, and ever since then, I've played everything from the old school games to the 360.
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Any manager can do well in an expanding market.
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I'm very responsible. And with ability you have to have responsibility. I'm not perfect. But you have to make sure that your children will know that daddy makes mistakes.
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I feel funny about owning art. I don't really want to say: 'Wow, come and see my Monet - it's in a dark room at the bottom of my cellar.'
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I don't Twitter, although sometimes I think that I should.
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Every time you go to the doctor and get a good report, the odds keep staking more in your favour.
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The public has lost the habit of movie-going because the cinema no longer possesses the charm, the hypnotic charisma, the authority it once commanded. The image it once held for us all - that of a dream we dreamt with our eyes open - has disappeared.
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Barack Obama is more irritating than the other nuisances on the Left.
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I have a very rich and wonderful personal life, and at its core are my sons.
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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The only thing I liked about Christmas as a kid was the gifts; otherwise, it just seemed like a stressful time.
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My very first job was a cashier at Burger King in Tucson, Arizona. And I occasionally worked the drive-thru. I'd go wherever I was needed! My second job was at Dairy Queen. I stayed in the fast food royalty.
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I have 60 years of reading to draw upon: naval memoirs, dispatches, the Naval Chronicles, family letters.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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I don't have a big appetite. I don't eat a lot, to be honest - never. I'm a bit like a little bird, picking all day long, but I'm not getting pasta or getting all those things, you know?
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My parents are music fans, even though neither of them play an instrument. I was exposed to their record collection, so I love everything from Joni Mitchell to Bruce Springsteen.
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I really enjoy being an actor!
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I love anything by Sisley for face and Lancaster for body.
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I'm much more a European Italian than I am an American Italian, and I've always felt that that style of acting comedy is in me. I put comedy as much as I can into all my movies, if I can help it.
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I don't understand what the nature of God is. But I do have the feeling that I'm at some feet, and lucky to be there.
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Mythology is like a game of Chinese Whispers. What goes in at one end of the human circle is rarely what emerges at the other end.
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Count yourself lucky, how happy you must be - you get a fresh start, your slate's wiped clean. Count yourself lucky - God holds nothing against you and you're holding nothing back from Him.
