Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
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I definitely look up to Veronica Roth, Suzanne Collins, and J.K. Rowling.
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When the government undertakes or approves a major project such as a dam or highway project, it must make sure the project's impacts, environmental and otherwise, are considered. In many cases, NEPA gives the public its only opportunity to be heard about the project's impact on their community.
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An enlarged global public society, with its many dissenting and corrective voices, can quickly call the bluff of lavishly credentialled and smug intellectual elites.
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I was successful materially, but I know life is much more than worldly success. I saw all these blessings God had given me. The way to give thanks is obedience to God.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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McGregor is a businessman through and through. He's obviously a wrestling fan.
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One thing I have clear is that I don't want to work for money anymore.
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The information revolution has changed wealth. Intellectual capital is far more important than money.
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I think I need to continue to think and plan and marry all of the different things that we could do that make transportation in space from the earth to the space station, from the earth to the moon to space stations around the moon to visiting an asteroid.
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I think there's a lot to learn from Rockefeller on how to pass legislation.
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Silences, as every observer knows, have strange characteristics all their own - passionate silences, and hateful silences, and silences full of friendly, purring content.
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The mark of the superior thinker is his or her ability to accurately predict the consequences of doing or not doing something.
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Growing up, I didn't receive the representation that I wanted so badly. I was always looking out for black characters - black women - that were specifically just about existing and weren't necessarily racialized or were centered around race.
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You can have your secret as long as I have your heart.
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Life is like eating artichokes; you have got to go through so much to get so little.
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Gratitude is like a flashlight. It lights up what is already there. You don't necessarily have anything more or different, but suddenly you can actually see what it is. And because you can see, you no longer take it for granted.
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Zooey said... It would be very nice to come home and be in the wrong house. To eat dinner with the wrong people by mistake, sleep in the wrong bed by mistake, and kiss everybody good-bye in the morning thinking they were your own family.
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Whoever is related to me in the height of his aspirations will experience veritable ecstasies of learning; for I come from heights that no bird ever reached in its flight, I know abysses into which no foot ever strayed.
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Much of directing [a movie] is not directing but just listening and being present in the moment and just keeping your eyes open.
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I have nothing to do with the selection of stories. I'm the reporter.
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Pointillism takes emotional images, character, etc., and makes them all come together and make a whole that tells a story.
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The theoretical casting part of movies is the funnest part. You really can imagine so many different versions of a story, based on who's embodying it.
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Stories are verbal acts of hospitality.
