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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But I have seen my obstacles: trivialities, learning and poetry. This last needs explaining: the old artist's readiness to dissolve characters into a haze. Characters cannot come alive and fight and guide the world unless the novelist wants them to remain characters.
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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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Nature is one. There is only one truth in life. We have a single universe, which has a sole creator.
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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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'Avatar: The Last Airbender' creators Mike DiMartino and Bryan Konietzko have, along with their team, painstakingly planned out the Avatarverse.
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It's a slight stretch of the imagination but most people are alike in most ways so I've never had any trouble identifying with the character that I'm playing.
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I used to think that I could be successful if I pretended to be a 23-year-old black woman. I wanted to find a young black woman who would be willing to go in on this with me. I would write her novels, and then she would do the touring. I always thought I was too old and the wrong color.
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If you can't trust a Methodist with absolute power to arrest people and not have to say why, then whom can you trust?
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When a man gets to despair he knows that all his thinking will never get him out. He will only get out by the sheer creative effort of God. Consequently he is in the right attitude to receive from God that which he cannot gain for himself.
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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.
