Oliver D. Crisp Quotes
One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!
Quotes to Explore
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What brought mass innovation to a nation was not scientific advances - its own or others' - but 'economic dynamism': the desire and the space to innovate.
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I'll tell ya, when you open up that can of dab, it's always fresh.
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In the '80 Olympics... people expected me to win. I was good enough to win, and I made a mistake and ended up second, which is pretty good, too.
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When we come to understand nature, we are touching the most deep and most important parts of ourself.
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When I'm at home, I want to be a normal person. I don't want to hear, 'Can I have your autograph?'
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I don't really care that much about eating. But I like impressing people with how good a cook I am. So I will cook. I'm an excellent cook. Not many people know that about me.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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More and more, we're used to taking things in through the eyes rather than through the ears, and opera is more of a spectacle.
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If we get a few solid festival shows then I will have no problem booking the lads for as many quality club shows around them to make a nice tour come together.
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I hate television. I hate it as much as peanuts. But I can't stop eating peanuts.
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The E.U. intends to be one of the biggest humanitarian donors on the Syrian crisis.
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I definitely like performing to a crowd that's there to see a female hero.
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First they ignore you, then they laugh at you, then they fight you, then you win.
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I can't wait to meet Jennifer Hudson, Tamyra Gray, George Huff, Ruben Studdard, and I love me some Clay Aiken.
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If you read quickly to get through a poem to what it means, you have missed the body of the poem.
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Some friends are better shots than are casual enemies.
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The past is the beginning of the beginning and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.
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Coffee shops are everywhere, especially in Los Angeles, chock full of sad sacks desperate to make sure their screenplays make it into the right hands... or any hands, for that matter. The one thing that makes a coffee shop truly great, though, is charm.
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Un soir, j'ai assis la Beauté sur mes genoux. - Et je l'ai trouvée amère. - Et je l'ai injuriée.
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I worry that if I enjoy something - like the songs on 'Some Nights' are about wondering about who you are. I'm never quite sure and I'd hate to feel sort of content and get a good sense of who I am because if I know one thing, that's not me. I don't mind not necessarily being happy about it. And that's fine.
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Writing a play is like smashing that [glass] ashtray, filming it in slow motion, and then running the film in reverse, so that the fragments of rubble appear to fly together. You start - or at least I start - with the rubble.
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I want every episode to feel like we still haven't done this right yet.
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One becomes affectionate toward men slowly, whether they coincide or not with whomever in the various phases of life we have taken as the model of a man.
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One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!
