Vance Havner Quotes
The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
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Working as a musician, I have to constantly generate new material, so school keeps me sharp. Reading and writing all the time helps me to be a better songwriter.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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My dad and I would watch Ray Lewis a lot. His tenacity, and he was everywhere. I wanted that mindset, too.
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Bondage is - subjection to external influences and internal negative thoughts and attitudes.
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Tragedy is like strong acid - it dissolves away all but the very gold of truth.
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However, it does seem now that the international community, more importantly the powers that have influence, and, even more importantly, Afghanistan's neighbors realize that it is high time that they work together, and not against one another.
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Reverence the deacons as you would the command of God.
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I don't think about my fame very much.
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I don't care about the quality of the film as a whole, but I loved 'Salt.' I loved it!
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The men and women of my generation are heirs to that great collective success which has been admired worldwide and of which we are so proud. It is now up to us to pass it on to the coming generations.
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World War II was a decisive time in our history and June 6, 1944, marked the decisive moment of the war.
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There's nothing called a perfect pick-up line. Men always have to face the risk of rejection.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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A lot of hard work goes into making a film. It's not all fun time, as people tend to think. There are always stereotypes attached to every profession, but I found out this industry breaks them all.
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Chavez made a compete fool of himself in front of the entire world while giving the U.N. a black eye. But the real losers are the Venezuelan people who have to put up with this unstable character every day.
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I went to high school in New York City. So, I grew up in New Jersey my whole life, and I was watching all the people and all the kids that I met there become so jaded.
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It's like the brooding hen sitting over a china egg.
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People love my collard greens. They love my macaroni and cheese. They love the gumbo. They love my Jamaican jerk or my Jamaican curry chicken. They love the jerk, though. And they love my Mexican food.
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After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I had done it, and how proud she was of her son Conrad.
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When you make music, and even if it's commercially successful, it doesn't mean that it's going to hold up. It takes time to sort of take stock of what you've done and whether it's got legs and whether it's going to really have a place.
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The worst thing that you can do in terms of bringing a product up to the market is to be two days after someone else has brought a similar product to the international market-It's dead.
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The fact of the Watergate cover-up is not nearly as interesting as the step into making the cover-up. And when you understand the step, you understand that Richard Nixon lied. That he was a criminal.
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I've never been particularly aware of my age. It's like being on a bicycle - I just put my foot down and keep going.
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The vision must be followed by the venture. It is not enough to stare up the steps - we must step up the stairs.
