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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I did a modeling gig for Burberry once, and it was a great experience, but no I am not a model. I want to be a model because it's a lot easier than acting.
Alex Pettyfer
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I mean, you know, God knows everything, but I'm not quite that good. Every once in a while, something will slip by me.
Bob Schieffer
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The point of our lives is not to get smart or to get rich or even to get happy. The point is to discover God’s purposes for us and to make them our own.
Cornelius Plantinga
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Call it not vain;-they do not err,Who say, that when the Poet dies,Mute Nature mourns her worshipper,And celebrates his obsequies.
Walter Scott
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I love being regarded as a sex symbol, but I can't take it too seriously.
John Travolta
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Prayer is the disciplined refusal to act before God acts.
Eugene H. Peterson
