Vance Havner Quotes
To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
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I was deeply uncertain of who I was and who I wanted to be. I really thought I wanted to be a much cooler guy than what I was.
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Now, do I think the baby boomers tend to be self-absorbed? I do.
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General Giap was one of the most brilliant military strategists of our era, who in Dien Bien Phu was able to place missile launchers in remote, mountainous jungles, something the yankee and European military officers considered impossible.
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What's interesting about Stephen Baldwin is that me and Dana Gould were originally cast for 'Bio-Dome' – but Pauly Shore and Baldwin ended up doing it. So there's a little movie trivia for ya.
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All performers get on stage because they need to feel love from an audience. I might appear confident, but those three seconds before I get out there, I'm a mess. But I have to take the risk; otherwise, I'd be miserable and would feel like I wasn't seeing through my personal destiny.
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I suspect that one of capitalism's crucial assets derives from the fact that the imagination of economists, including its critics, lags well behind its own inventiveness, the arbitrariness of its undertaking and the ruthlessness of the way in which it proceeds.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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To model yourself after Steve Jobs is like, 'I'd like to paint like Picasso, what should I do? Should I use more red?'
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I could live very quietly, do advertising to earn money.
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Nothing makes us love a person as much as praying for him.
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By and large, small companies don't want to settle for part-time employees over full-time positions.
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It was treacherous. I think someone was injured. But I did love being there, we all did.
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After I lost my fiance, it seemed like it would be better to always be alone than to risk being hurt again.
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Somebody can't complain when they enjoy going to work and enjoy the people they work with.
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I was a guinea pig for some hoodlums who thought they could hurt me and frighten me and keep other Negro entertainers from the South.
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Real Texans want their kids to have the best education possible, not the one politicians looking to brag about budget cuts have left us with.
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I got hit with an octopus in Detroit one time. It was the most gross thing I've ever had happen. I got it right in the back of the neck; all the juice was coming down. It was awful.
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Mostly this problem is contained in the fact that the US makes it so difficult for Canadians to get green cards (you heard it here), but if an American orchestra really wants a player, they have their ways.
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I had to shoot shotguns for The Blues Brothers. But I don't like that stuff. Too butch for me.
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A lot of people don't know how to navigate: they think, once you become a Christian, you essentially have to become Ned Flanders.
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One of the most important things in my childhood were the new books that came in. I feel sorry for kids today who have so many other options like television that they may not value books as much as they could enjoy them.
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If Star Wars had failed, you wouldn't have 90 percent of what's out there today.
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The consumption of petroleum should be conserved. We need to adopt some austerity measures. The people should cooperate with us.
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To the average professed Christian today, living so far below normal, New Testament Christianity would be a shock.
