R. A. Torrey Quotes
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I like playing sort-of-crazy people. There's something really, really fun about that.
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I don't call myself a very good Christian, but I think I know one when I see one, and I also think I know when I don't.
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I like to work on T.V. because it's like a normal thing, and then I like to do movies when I'm on break or hiatus.
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When we show up in a city, we ask, 'Where's the best restaurant? What's the best beer?' You start doing that, and you get exposed to a lot of great stuff.
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Manhattan seems pretty developed, you know what I mean? Like, it has peaked in culture.
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I don't think that my work is very moralistic - at least, I try to avoid that. I grew up with that sermonising tendency, and I don't think visual work operates like that.
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If you've got a plot the size of a car or a tiny yard in Italy, you're going to be growing tomatoes and basil and celery and carrots, and everybody is still connected to the land.
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Forests, lakes, and rivers, clouds and winds, stars and flowers, stupendous glaciers and crystal snowflakes - every form of animate or inanimate existence, leaves its impress upon the soul of man.
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Brussels sprouts are really quite versatile.
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Yes, I did try acting when I was in high school and I was terrible at it. So I definitely have had the experience of being bad at artistic endeavor.
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I hate when a guy brags... or he sweats.
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If a great outfit gets you one step closer to feeling good about yourself, then it's worth every penny.
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I'd visit the near future, close enough that someone might want to talk to Larry Niven and can figure out the language; distant enough to get me decent medical techniques and a ticket to the Moon.
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New York felt to me like what America should be - a representation of the world in this small pocket.
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I like music that's more offensive. I like it to sound like nails on a blackboard, get me wild.
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I think God just died of old age. And, when I realized that he wasn't any more, it didn't shock me. It seemed natural and right!
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As a Christian, Christ died so that we will have eternal life in Him in Heaven. What it looks like doesn't matter, what it smells like doesn't matter, as long as Christ is there it will be Heaven to me.
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If you think back to your first love, you always remember them and little things always remind you of them.
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Just because scientists have the knowledge to do it, the technology to do it, and some may even have a financial motive or other incentive to do it, does not make it right.
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Silicon Valley is 130 miles from Sacramento, but it might as well be a million miles away given how it operates.
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And friends of mine that had photography class in high school would develop the film and make prints and I'd take them back to the track and give 'em away or try and sell them. Much to my parents' dismay, I majored in photography in college.
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The combined results of several people working together is often much more effective than could be that of an individual scientist working alone.
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Talent is God given. Be humble. Fame is man-given. Be grateful. Conceit is self-given. Be careful.
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I would rather go to heaven alone than go to hell in company.
