Soren Kierkegaard Quotes
Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.
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I have a reputation for being hermitlike. I'm not. I'm just obsessed with my work.
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I always knew I would make the record that I made in 'Carter Girl.'
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I use other cookbooks for inspiration. I must say I tend to cook from my own cookbooks for parties.
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You learn so much on set; I don't know if you learn as much anywhere else as you do when you're on set, working.
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In the jungle, faith also became something very real; it helped me to understand what was happening to me and changed my questions.
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If you eat something and get fat, you should be responsible for it. I think that is the attitude of the great majority of Americans, that you should be responsible for what you eat.
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North Korea is probably the only country in the world deliberately kept out of the Internet.
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One of the things I strive for is realism. I need to be as real as possible in the dilemmas my characters face.
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I would not invest in any shoe that is too trendy.
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I'm from a very small village in the middle of nowhere, four hours by airplane from Moscow. Yemanzhelinsk - you wouldn't find it on the map. Don't even try it. It's super, super tiny.
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Playing the quarterback position, there are so many things you need to master that improvement ends up taking place on graduated levels.
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
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At school I used to avoid dance lessons. They were the worst.
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Smaller families mean we have more time and money to lavish on each child. Parents are more anxious because small families give them less experience of parenting and put their genetic eggs in fewer baskets.
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I do not love to work out, but if I stick to exercising every day and put the right things in my mouth, then my diabetes just stays in check.
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When I was the NIH director, I often expressed envy of institute directors: they had the money and ran the scientific programmes.
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He who knows himself is enlightened.
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I am convinced that the world-wide protests during the Rivonia trial saved Mandela and his fellow-accused from a death sentence. But in South Africa, a life sentence means imprisonment until death - or until the defeat of the government which holds these men prisoner.
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The family uses people, not for what they are, nor for what they are intended to be, but for what it wants them for - its own uses. It thinks of them not as what God has made them, but as the something which it has arranged that they shall be.
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Everybody's got a story on their beards. I guess it's just a way of finding common ground with people you otherwise might not know.
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The ultimate function of prophecy is not to tell the future, but to make it. Your successful past will block your visions of the future.
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Michael patted him on the shoulder. “I like this plan,” he said. “You and Eve, picking up cake and flowers, and you can’t even say a word. Should be tons of fun.” Shane almost choked, and gave Michael a sideways glare. Michael sent him a hundred-watt smile in return—no fangs, which was probably for the best.
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When we sin, Satan tells us we are lost. In contrast, our Redeemer offers redemption to all—no matter what we have done wrong—even to you and to me.
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Why I so much prefer autumn to spring is that in the autumn one looks at heaven--in the spring at the earth.
