Vance Havner Quotes
Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'
Quotes to Explore
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I believe in the Prince of Peace. I believe that War is Murder. I believe that armies and navies are at bottom the tinsel and braggadocio of oppression and wrong, and I believe that the wicked conquest of weaker and darker nations by nations whiter and stronger but foreshadows the death of that strength.
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I haven't written my memoirs or let the television movie be made about my life.
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I find George Bush and Dick Cheney frightening, Donald Rumsfeld and John Ashcroft frightening.
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I'm a really good parent to myself sometimes, and I do things that make me learn and grow.
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To be seen and to be respected for my work and acknowledged as a true American Latina... means a lot to me.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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There are things that bother me. I try not to let them, but they do.
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Why are we building golf courses? Because we enjoy being outside, bringing man and nature together.
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I have like 20 snap-up shirts in my closet, and I never, never would have thought before FNL would I have had that.
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Certain writers look down their noses at plot, and I think I might have been one of them until I tried it.
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I certainly support civil unions.
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I don't think I would do better books if I wrote full time. I write for amateurish reasons.
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A consumer is a shopper who is sore about something.
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Sometimes you have to take a half step back to take two forward.
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Eating together is the most intimate form of kinship. By scripting a work where we share the same kind of food with fish, I'm scripting our interrelationship with them.
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Sarah Corvus in 'Bionic Woman' was one of my favorite characters I've ever played, ever, for reasons that are very similar to Nikki in 'Sexy Evil Genius.' I felt that that show was taken away from me too soon, and I really wanted to dive back into that mind frame again.
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Heroism is not only in the man, but in the occasion.
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The future isn't just a place you'll go. It's a place you will invent.
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Rock stars come and go. Musicians play until they die.
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After Versace was murdered, the first person to call me was Mandela.
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Sometimes I feel so separated, you know? The Kardashians over here, the Jenners over here, little me in the middle. We've got to keep the family going.
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Some missionaries bound for Africa were laughed at by the boat captain. 'You'll only die over there,' he said. But a missionary replied, 'Captain, we died before we started.'
