Vance Havner Quotes
Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
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When you have that connection to say, 'I'm going to play for something bigger than myself,' man, you have a chance to do something good.
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The bad news is, I have worked less than I have liked. The good news is, I can look back on my body of work and feel truly proud of the work I have done.
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It's good to keep in mind that prominence is always a mix of hard work, eloquence in your practice, good timing and fortuitous social relations. Everything can't be personalized.
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However good a Constitution may be, if those who are implementing it are not good, it will prove to be bad. However bad a Constitution may be, if those implementing it are good, it will prove to be good.
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Why should people go out and pay money to see bad films when they can stay at home and see bad television for nothing?
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I came up in the theater, and I learned pretty quickly that reading a review, whether it's good or bad, can strangely affect the next performances, because you're reacting to something that's been said about you. So I tend to avoid that stuff pretty studiously.
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The good thing is I didn't feel like anyone was going to judge me on 'Glee.'
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If you don't use good ingredients, the outcome is never going to be excellent. But if you buy the freshest ingredients that are in season, at their peak, and you cook with them, you can't really go wrong.
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Good fiction is about asserting the beauties of the world, inventing a new, positive thing. Where am I going to get that? And it should be original; it should not be cliched. So the way I looked at history was not to accuse it of failure.
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In all good westerns, the good guy is always a little bit questionable because he kind-of has to make moral judgments.
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I've always said if what I'm going to create doesn't look good on everybody, I'm not going to do it.
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Can anything good come of a backward way of thinking like judging someone based on skin color? No way.
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I'm aware people will think I've had an easy way into a dream career. My view is, if anyone has opportunities, they'll take them. My surname opens doors, but those doors will slam firmly if I'm no good.
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The hype man's job is to get everybody out of their seats and on the dance floor to have a good time.
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Anyone who says there isn't pressure to look good as an actor in L.A. is lying.
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Little League baseball is a very good thing because it keeps the parents off the streets.
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We are in a situation with the huge stimulus package that's going to be spent all across this nation and a big financial crisis and banking crisis. And what we need is good, trained journalists who can play the role of watchdog.
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I have always loved astronomy, and being an astronomer once lurked in the back of my mind. But I was never good at algebra. In fact, I flunked it twice in high school.
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I think marriage is a beautiful thing. I'm still a supporter of it.
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Even though I'm from the Midwest, the majority of my life has been spent on the coasts where being gay wasn't really much of a conversation.
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Trump talks like a guy at a bar in West Virginia. Trump talks like my dad sitting around the dinner table.
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Don't use Buddhism to become a Buddhist. Use Buddhism to become better at whatever else in your life you are doing already.
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Criminals gravitate into government positions like natural law.
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Christ is most concerned with the direction in which you habitually are going and not with a spasmodic eruption either good or bad.
