Vance Havner Quotes
God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."
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I came up from growing up with a lot of Catholic guilt, a lot of punk rock, hipster guilt in the later years where I think people have thrown a lot of things on me. Where I always felt like I'm not supposed to tell the horn section what to play or I don't want to come off egotistical.
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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I don't think of anyone as a 'groupie.' People who connect with my music are just inspiring and amazing.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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I believe that leaders should inspire you to be more like them.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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It's nice to know when you're a part of a story, it's nice to know at least something about the beginning, middle, and end.
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Putin recognized that if he could get enough money, everything would be under control.
Garry Kasparov -
Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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We know specific genes are turned on in specific cells, but we don't know to what extent this happens.
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Al Qaeda has overplayed their hand. What the al Qaeda do when they go into a town or village or a neighborhood inside a major city is they get a stranglehold on the people themselves. They force the men to wear beards and the women to be properly costumed and essentially completely covered up.
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Opera in English is, in the main, just about as sensible as baseball in Italian.
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I don't put on makeup when I'm getting ready for a game, because why would I? I am gearing up for battle. How is mascara or eyeliner going to help me win?
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Every government says they love small businesses, but what have they done for them? We should pull down all the barriers.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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I am so like Donna it's funny. And most of my friends are guys too.
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The secret to a long-lasting relationship is perpetually imagining the worst. It's a world view tracing back to my Eastern European ancestry and one I draw upon regularly.
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You’re pretty sharp, Clive. Do you believe in God?” Clive smiled. “I don’t know, should I?” Actually, approaching the matter from a purely logical perspective, yes. All the evidence points to the existence of a creator. The single greatest body of evidence is the dismal failure of man’s desperate attempts to come up with a reasonable alternative, beginning with evolution. I’ve always looked at the universe and seen a creator as plainly as most people who look at the ocean see water.
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New Zealand's Daniel Vettori is a very good bowler.
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One of the things I learned as a young semiotics nerd was that if you have plot moving forward, no matter how banal the facts of it, simply the fact that the plot is rolling forward makes you wonder what's going to happen next, which creates suspense. So you can control peoples' attention simply by having things move forward in a story.
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I've learned that exercise alone is not enough to stay healthy - it's a whole lifestyle.
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God's deepest secrets often miss the wise and prudent and are revealed unto babes. We say, "Children, be like your parents." Jesus said, "Parents, be like your children."
