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 think TV has been a little bit irresponsible in how they portray these people because homicide detectives are not brooding, tortured souls who are stained with the stink of the city and who have blood on their hands. They are real, live people that are incredibly entertaining.
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Oh to follow the road that leads away from everything, without anguish, death, winter waiting along it with their eyes open through the dew.
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I want people to get over my weight and the loss of it. It's been years, and I am sure people can find better things to talk about.
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You should *have* an experience; it shouldn't just *be* an experience.
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Modern man is frantically trying to earn enough to buy things he's too busy to enjoy.
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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.