Eugene H. Peterson Quotes
The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.
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Let us not forget that the greatest composers were also the greatest thieves. They stole from everyone and everywhere.
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If you don't learn to laugh at troubles, you won't have anything to laugh at when you grow old.
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Christine Bass was my high school music teacher. She took a program on its last legs and within a few years turned into one of the best programs in the country. Our high school dominated national choir competitions all through her 20-plus year tenure.
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There's also the tradition of voodoo, the Haitian magic arts, in New Orleans. And because New Orleans is below sea level, when they bury people in New Orleans, it's mostly above ground. So you have this idea that the spirits are more accessible and can access you more easily because they're not even buried.
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I never doubted that I would be a good mayor. I never did.
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Everyone knows nowadays that people 'have complexes'. What is not so well known, though far more important theoretically, is that complexes can have us.
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Wes Craven is obviously a horror film icon so I was definitely very interested in bringing something back to life that Wes had created.
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With love and patience, nothing is impossible.
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I think my confidence has developed over the years in terms of the speed at which I will reveal how collaborative I want to be.
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Dem Bunde der Künstler einen bestimmten Zweck geben, das heisst ein dürftiges Institut an die Stelle des ewigen Vereins setzen; das heisst die Gemeinde der Heiligen zum Staat erniedrigen.
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But since he hadThe genuis to be loved, why let him haveThe justice to be honoured in his grave.
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There isn't another other sex. (p. 254)
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'You do well. Method and order, they are everything,' replied Poirot.
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A change of season calls for a change of scent that is both energizing and refreshing.
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I think about 'The Hurt Locker,' and we made a film about three guys, three different looking guys with three very different energies.
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We all pretend, we all hide things, so why not take the concept to an extreme? That is the basic idea for the character of Dexter. Pretend to be human, while quietly and carefully living out the life of a monster on the side.
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I like acting a lot, but it's not something I get out of bed for every day.
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'Black Hawk Down' has such distinctive visual aplomb that its jingoism starts to feel like part of its atmosphere.
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I'm not trying to be a girl by putting on a dress - gender is separated by fabric.
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Novels are like paintings, specifically watercolors. Every stroke you put down you have to go with. Of course you can rewrite, but the original strokes are still there in the texture of the thing.
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Above all else, He loves you and chose to measure that love out not in words, but in blood. He loves you enough to give you the greatest gift conceivable. Would such a love allow you to suffer without purpose?
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The living nightmare for a red state NASCAR driver would be a gay French driver.
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At the federal level, the fiscal stimulus of 2008 and 2009 supported economic output, but the effects of that stimulus faded; by 2011, federal fiscal policy actions became a drag on output growth when the recovery was still weak.
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The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.
