Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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It used to be that watching a film was a very special occasion, the same way flying was. Before, if you took a flight from New York to L.A., most of the windows would be open. Now, we get on planes and we just close them because we're so used to what it feels like. I think the same thing has happened with cinema.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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The imperial province should have a university, the prefectures should have colleges, and the counties should have day schools.
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I would be happy if people just called me an actor.
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I am definitely a person of color.
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I was drawing a mandolin, and I made the sound hole very small, which made the mandolin look gigantic. I saw that making the details small made the form monumental. So in my figures, the eyes, the mouth are all small, and the exterior form is huge.
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It always feels good to put something you're proud of out in the world.
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So in my uncertainty, I went to graduate school and there it all happened.
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'Well,' he said. 'Strange roads have strange guides. Let’s go on.'
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Religion will not regain its old power until it can face change in the same spirit as does science. Its principles may be eternal, but the expression of those principles requires continual development.
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And feels a thousand deaths in fearing one.
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The Olympics are an opportunity to redefine the country, but the message is always wrong.
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Man usually avoids attributing cleverness to somebody else-unless it is an enemy.
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I told the umpires to walk back at least thirty-five feet from home plate. That reduced the arguements.
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I like walking on the edge.
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Whoever's president I'm not going to be short on material.
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What is hard to remember when you're in the middle of it is that when you get through to the other side, you always walk away with a gift. If you can stand in there and not walk away from it, you get transformed by it.
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A lot of coaches in MMA focus on MMA wrestling. My coach, his high school team is ranked 10th in the nation. Izzy Martinez is very connected to the wrestling community.
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Well, I didn't really grow up playing or listening to metal, like many of the kids I went to school with. I only got into it in my late teens, so when Marilyn Manson formed, it was at a time when I was still excited about approaching music from that angle.
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It felt good to get out there, move a little and break a couple of tackles and get back to myself to get ready for Week 1.
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When you become famous, they don't give you a handbook.
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I have resolved, if our interview is conducted in the usual manner, and it pleases God to give me the opportunity, to reserve and throw away my first fire, and I have thoughts even of reserving my second fire.
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All the persons of faith I know are sinners, doubters, uneven performers. We are secure not because we are sure of ourselves but because we trust that God is sure of us.
