Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
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If I focus on being an activist and my job is to be a rapper, I'm not going to be as good of a rapper. I need to focus on hip-hop and focus on making the music, so that when the activists come to me and they need my voice to create a platform, then I've got enough people listening to me. Not because I'm conscious, but because I'm dope.
Talib Kweli
Black Star
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
Victor Hugo
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I was very innocent and shielded as a child, so I didn't know a lot about music or dancing. When I was in Primary Six, no one would participate in a talent show, so I decided to go on. When the audience applauded me, I felt euphoric, and I started dancing right after that!
Rain
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I've got America's best writer for $300 a week.
Jack Warner
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Tennis Australia really led the charge as far as upping the prize money and trying to do the right thing by the players. They also led the way so women have equal prize money in all the grand slams too.
Samantha Stosur
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I was on various anti-depressants, but not for long - I didn't function very well on them. I felt sort of flattened out.
Jack Dee
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It is not infrequent to hear men declaim loudly upon liberty, who, if we may judge by the whole tenor of their actions, mean nothing else by it but their own liberty - to oppress without control, or the restraint of laws, all who are poorer and weaker than themselves.
Samuel Adams
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If you have two steaks, one that's an inch thick, one that's 2 inches thick, how much longer does the thicker one need to cook? It's four times as long. It goes roughly like the square. How come cookbooks don't tell you that?
Nathan Myhrvold
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Religion is usually nothing but a supplement to or even a substitute for education, and nothing is religious in the strict sense which is not a product of freedom.
Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel
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I go to bed angry and I get up angrier every morning.
Harlan Ellison
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One of my favorite comedies is 'Three Amigos!' Oh my gosh, me and my brother quote that all the time.
Jason Dolley
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I was against gay marriage until I realized I didn't have to get one.
James Carville
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To see your dad cry is like - It's different than to see your mom cry, you know?
Lauren Alaina
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China is not looking for a trade surplus but wants to import more French goods.
Li Keqiang
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I was living an extremely burdensome life, because every time I prayed, I became more clearly aware of my faults. On the one hand, God was calling me. On the other, I was following the way of the world. Doing what God wanted made me happy; but I felt bound by the things of this world.
Saint Teresa of Avila
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I falter where I firmly trod, And falling with my weight of cares Upon the great world's altar-stairs That slope thro' darkness up to God, I stretch lame hands of faith, and grope, And gather dust and chaff, and call To what I feel is Lord of all, And faintly trust the larger hope.
Alfred Lord Tennyson
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What's your name, new best friend?
Kevin Smith
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Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
Eugene H. Peterson
