Vance Havner Quotes
We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.
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I don't think I think when I play. I have a photographic memory for chords, and when I'm playing, the right chords appear in my mind like photographs long before I get to them.
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I wasn't real quick, and I wasn't real strong. Some guys will just take off and it's like, whoa. So I beat them with my mind and my fundamentals.
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I feel like I have so many stories basting in my mind, and they come busting out when they're ready.
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The four characteristics of humanism are curiosity, a free mind, belief in good taste, and belief in the human race.
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I go where the material is, and I feel like I'm looking for really strong directors. That's the key ingredient. There are some directors I would move the sun and earth for, or stop the rotation of the planets, just to work with them.
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Love me or hate me, both are in my favour. If you love me, I will always be in your heart, and if you hate me, I will be in your mind.
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I don't tend to set out on huge world domination goals or have anything in mind. I just like to play. I like to gig a lot; I like to write music.
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If there is anything that keeps the mind open to angel visits, and repels the ministry of ill, it is human love.
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I really wish that I would have gone to college. Even my son, who's into rap himself, I tell him and tell his children, 'Go to college. Get that education - it is so important. Don't do like I did.' I had all this singing on my mind, and I just didn't have time for it.
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The thing with Stephen King is that everyone dies, and everyone comes back to life. So you never know with his mind where things go. It's the same with Steven Spielberg, too.
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I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.
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I wanted something different; I wanted something that challenged me and that pushed me further. Then this idea of climbing Mount Everest came to my mind. It stuck in my head for days. Someone told me I couldn't do it, and that really annoyed me.
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In the past, on Earth, it has largely been to exploit foreign resources and to expand the domestic territory.
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I believe that you're here on Earth for a short time, and while you're here, you shouldn't forget it.
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A curious mind is the most important attribute any man or woman can possess.
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For the mind is all the easier to teach before it is set.
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The first comic book I ever read was an issue of 'Legion of Super-Heroes' where the earth was surrounded by all of these chains. I remember the cover; I got it at a birthday party.
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What is love without passion? - A garden without flowers, a hat without feathers, tobogganing without snow.
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Being irrational and out of control is what happens in real life. Not cautiously choreographing your anger or your emotions, losing yourself in them is what happens in real life.
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I have known Hillary Clinton for 25 years. I remember her, as you do, as a great first lady who broke precedent in terms of the role that a first lady was supposed to play as she helped lead the fight for universal health care.
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I'm geeky about video games. I don't stay inside a lot and just play them 24/7, but if I had the chance, I probably would.
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We are the salt of the earth, mind you, not the sugar. Our ministry is to truly cleanse and not just to change the taste.
