Vance Havner Quotes
Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
Quotes to Explore
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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I think in every picture that I've ever made. Everything that I've done torments me. I really would like another chance except I'd be too embarrassed to ever really try to do them again and no one would want to see the same movie just done differently.
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I hope our people hold tight to the notion that we do not have to be a fear-ridden country focused on restrictions, but rather that we remain the land of the free and home of the brave.
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Secretly, I think everyone who makes fun of California really does want to be in California.
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Carbon's eastern neighbor on the table, nitrogen, dresses up diamonds in pinks, yellows, oranges, and brownish tints known romantically as 'champagne.'
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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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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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I just want to be part of great stories that are told and for them to be relevant.
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I'm very lucky to be in projects that have such skilled writing in them.
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The big things I've had are things I bought myself.
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I just use intuition - would I wear that? Would it feel okay? It's pretty simple, nothing too complicated.
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I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.
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I have seen life from the top down and the bottom up. I know how it looks both ways. And I know there is wisdom and that there is hope.
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I'm here because I stand on many, many shoulders, and that's true of every black person I know who has achieved.
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I want to be free... free to develop my art.
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I have discovered the art of deceiving diplomats. I tell them the truth and they never believe me.
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I enjoyed being in 'The Ten Commandments.' That was a great experience - to suddenly become one of those holy people. I was holier than thou.
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The only times I'm not relaxed are when I haven't got a project on the go.
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Once a Catholic always a Catholic.
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I had saved a lot of money working at Mrs. Fields' Chocolate Chip Cookies, ushering at the Golden Gate Theatre, and doing odd jobs so I could live in New York for a few months. If it ran out, I would have to give up and go home. It turned out OK. I got my Equity card and started working.
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George Carlin was great right up to the end of his life. But Richard Pryor was probably the best, most gifted stand-up comedian who will ever live.
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Tell me the size of a mammal and I can tell you, to about 85 per cent level, pretty much everything about its physiology and life history, such as how long it is going to live, how many offspring it will have, the length of its aorta, how long it will take to mature, what is the pulse rate in the ninth branch of its circuitry.
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That's the beautiful thing about mixed martial arts - and I'll tell people that - you have to think outside of the box.
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Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
