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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During the summer months of my high-school years, I befriended Dr. Robert Kough, a physician who cared for members of my family. Although he was practicing general medicine in a rural community when I met him, he was well equipped to arouse in me an interest not only in the life of a physician but in the fundaments of human biology.
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The room where I am lodging is stupendous. Thank God I am as fit as a fiddle.
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Any man who tries to be good all the time is bound to come to ruin among the great number who are not good. Hence a prince who wants to keep his authority must learn how not to be good, and use that knowledge, or refrain from using it, as necessity requires.
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You know Sarkozy offered me the Legion d'honneur medal? I refused. People said I refused because I don't like Sarkozy, but that's ridiculous. I refused because I don't like decorations - except on women.
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Von Loewe really should know me well enough by now to realize that I am not going to face my execution without a fight. Or with anything remotely resembling dignity.
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One of the things we in the Reformed tradition are very good at is writing doctrinal theology!
