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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Why should man's first flight to the moon be a matter of national competition? Why should the United States and the Soviet Union, in preparing for such expeditions, become involved in immense duplications of research, construction and expenditure?
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My dear girl, you must cultivate a taste for the finer things. Civilized pleasures give meaning to life.
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I live my life day by day, and that's how I continue to live it.
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My work participates in that really quick and easy and inexpensive material that's part of our culture. In that way, my work engages the means of production that we live with, even while it's classical and embodies some things from a very long time ago.
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The day science begins to study non-physical phenomena, it will make more progress in one decade than in all the previous centuries of its existence.
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Too many Christians live their Christian lives inside their heads; it never gets out through hands and feet and lips.
