Vance Havner Quotes
The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.

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Women often have a great need to portray themselves as sympathetic and pleasing, but we're also dark people with dark thoughts.
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I don't have a connection to the fashion world at all.
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There is a recognition that Second Amendment rights, like First Amendment and other rights, come with responsibilities and limitations. There is no reason both sides of the gun debate can't support policies that both protect the right to legally own guns for sport and safety, and reduce the likelihood of mass fatalities.
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The main thing that I learned from my horrible job experiences was how horrible they were.
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If you can shrug off a loss, you can't be a winner.
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The cultural decoding that many American writers require has become an even harder task in the age of globalisation. The experience they describe has grown more private; its essential background, the busy larger world, has receded.
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With my victory, I must always remember that I glorify God.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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One of the strangest aspects of living with certain kinds of memory loss is knowing that the forgetting is happening.
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Trees and plants always look like the people they live with, somehow.
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I've taught myself how to use good, fresh ingredients and to prepare them as simply as possible by cooking only to enhance their intrinsic flavors.
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I can't tell you how many times I've been writing and then found myself seven clicks deep into a Wikipedia entry that I don't even care about. Self-distraction appears to be my version of sleepwalking.
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The thing about being a mystery writer, what marks a mystery writer out from a chick lit author or historical fiction writer, is that you always find a mystery in every situation.
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So whatever I might have started to learn at that age was all undone by the next director and next crew in the next cheap picture, because I was allowed to get away with murder.
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The dons of Oxford and Cambridge are too busy educating the young men to be able to teach them anything.
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As my other obligations are beginning to take an inordinate amount of time, I have asked to step down as WMG's board chairman, effective January 31, 2012. However, I will remain a director of the company and in that way, continue my association with Warner Music and its extraordinary people.
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Women are, in my view, natural peacemakers. As givers and nurturers of life, through their focus on human relationships and their engagement with the demanding work of raising children and protecting family life, they develop a deep sense of empathy that cuts through to underlying human realities.
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The writers who have the deepest influence on one are those one reads in ones more impressionable, early life, and often it is the more youthful works of those writers that leave the deepest imprint.
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I hate being on my best behavior. It brings out the absolute worst in me.
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The need for change bulldozed a road down the center of my mind.
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People take songs so literally.
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After a year, the aromatics in an olive oil are gone. Sometimes the bottles on the shelf in the supermarket are there a lot longer than you are.
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'You're fired' was not a part of the deal. And when I went into the first board room, the very first one, I'm looking at these people, and I had to fire somebody, but we never thought in terms of the expression 'You're fired.'
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The middle of the road is a poor place to walk. It is a poor place to drive. It is a poor place to live.