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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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 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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That is the most important thing to me, what happens behind the closed doors in the studio and makes me an artist.
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There are two kinds of people in crisis situations - those who fight and those who freeze. I'm a freezer, and that's just going by the couple of surprise birthday parties I've had thrown for me.
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My 'Vogue' is about being inclusive; it's about diversity. Showing different women, different body shapes, different races, class. To be tackling gender.
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I wasn't very ambitious as a child. I'm still not.
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If this is the way Queen Victoria treats her prisoners, she doesn't deserve to have any.
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Change requires decision making, and decision making requires action. Most churches don't make turnarounds because they never get to the action. Discussion only begets more discussion. Together, and led by the pastor, the church must decide on a course of action.
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Greatest generation came through some stuff that we can't even imagine - the Depression, World War I - and all they wanted after that was a breather and a calm and a quiet life, and they get us.
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The United States is too big and we are too involved with too many people for any president to be able to take actions that will be universally agreed to all day, every day and everywhere in the world.
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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.
