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.'
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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'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 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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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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I am a character actress. Well, let's say, I am a leading character actress who does interesting, odd parts.
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If you distill the essence of everything, what life is about, every single one of us is given a short moment in time on this planet, and we all have one universal need and desire, and that is to be loved and to love. And to deny that for your own political expediency, I don't want to live in that column. It ain't worth it.
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Ray Harryhausen's 'Sinbad' picture was the first film I remember seeing. I was two years old when it came out, and it changed my life forever. I had nightmares about dragons and stuff for years - and loved it!
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If you had asked me when I was in law school or in college or as a kid, 'Is Daniel going to be running a food company?' I would tell you you're cuckoo. What I was going to be doing was representing Israel at the United Nations.
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You run into a party and a woman comes up to you. She's the most beautiful creature you ever saw — Ava Gardner — and says, 'I like you and why don't we get together?' What are you going to say, 'No'? You'd have to be an idiot. She was an incredible creature.
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All the reasons which made the initiation of physical force evil, make the retaliatory use of physical force a moral imperative.
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We need to preserve our neighborhoods, our small business, our local economy.
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The Torah itself becomes coarse in the mouth of a man of pride.
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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.'
