Vance Havner Quotes
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Most of the offers I get from Hollywood are for teen comedies. My manager thinks I'm crazy for turning down all that money, but I'm very picky.
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I just got to hear every note. After I left Birdland, I started working at the Jazz Gallery. In the end, I still couldn't play, but I knew how to listen. I was probably the world's best listener.
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Even when Facebook came out, and I was in college, I found myself never putting anything on it.
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Feature filmmaking is a very powerful medium. It has a hold on me now.
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When I was in my early 20s, I studied tae kwon do and hapkido. I earned brown belts in both of them.
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The combination of olive oil, garlic and lemon juice lifts the spirits in winter.
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Sydney's beautiful, the weather's great, and the air's fresh and clean, but it doesn't have the scene and the amount of likeminded people. At home, things are very comfortable, but I feel like putting myself out there a bit.
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I am honoured to be associated with a brand like Movado. It believes in the art of design and is known for its perfection worldwide. I have strong faith in the pursuit of perfection. I am looking forward to a long association.
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Prior to the United Nations even being formed, Palestine was a country. But the right of the Palestinian people were trampled, and unfortunately, international organizations contributed to those rights being trampled.
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But I don't think we'll go there until we go back to the moon and develop a technology base for living and working and transporting ourselves through space.
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I have always hated slavery, I think, as much as any abolitionist. I have been an Old Line Whig. I have always hated it, but I have always been quiet about it until this new era of the introduction of the Nebraska Bill began.
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It doesn't matter if people perceive me as being a little strange. I think overall, even when I am on stage, when people see me, I am setting an example.
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I changed that system in Florida when I was the Speaker of the House - I was the Minority Leader; I saw for 16 years the way a power system works.
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In real terms, there is a greater disparity of earnings between the very rich and the very poor.
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I was very skinny, braces; so I never thought I would be a model.
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It is easy to bare your body, but it is difficult to bare your soul. What works for me is that I am not a city-raised boy with city-raised sensibilities. I can play the vulnerable tough man, the guy with a gun in his hand, tears in his eyes, fire in his heart, innocence in him, and in his arms a woman he loves.
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I strongly believe that crossing the aisle for the good of the American people is more important than party politics.
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I need a girl who will put me in my place, but I also want to laugh and have a good time.
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I'm a really hectic dreamer; I never wake up not out of a dream, and there's loads going on, lots of action, big blockbuster dreams, they're all major enterprises.
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It's nice to get to know people who are the same age as you that do the same things because it's like a different level of understanding.
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Man must be in space - that is what we are destined for. There is nothing else that we can do.
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When forgetting someone becomes difficult. You don't understand what to do.
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You haven't lost anything when you know were it is. Death can hide but not divide.
