Vance Havner Quotes
If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
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My look is either very baroque or very Zen - everything in between makes me itch.
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As historians, we spend days in archives, gazing at account books. We train would-be historians in the arts of deciphering letters and documents, early Latin, scribal handwriting, medieval French.
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We believe in funding family planning because it helps to prevent unintended pregnancy. We believe that a woman considering an abortion should not be forced to have an ultrasound against her will.
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The nature and the DNA of IMAX has been redefined in the past years to shoot these huge blockbusters. But I think that it's not the sole purpose of IMAX to capture cars exploding in your face.
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I'm not an enormous proponent of plot as a reader. It's about other things; my reading has become specialized over the years.
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A strong, successful man is not the victim of his environment. He creates favorable conditions. His own inherent force and energy compel things to turn out as he desires.
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Then you had people who wanted to get into comedy just to get a TV deal.
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I know you can be up one minute and drop the next, so I'm trying to maintain a steady course so I can have some longevity.
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For decades, Iran has covertly worked to develop a nuclear weapons program and has repeatedly violated its international obligations.
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Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.
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We had to get serious and hit all aspects. We had to graduate. That's what you got to do: reach all people across the nation.
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The reason that the all-American boy prefers beauty to brains is that he can see better than he can think.
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Black beans and soy beans are the cornerstones of longevity diets around the world.
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Mind is everything. Muscle - pieces of rubber. All that I am, I am because of my mind.
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Right now I'm so old that if I had a big gush of money, I don't know what I'd do with it. I don't travel anymore. I don't need anything, don't want anything. I'd give it to my son, I guess, and let him enjoy it.
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I was looking for what was coming from a man's soul and a man's conviction. I didn't care about his past. If it was innate and natural and felt good to him and it communicated.
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I got done writing Ports of Call and suddenly realized I have far too much material for the book.
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I tell my students, even if you are an opinion journalist, your opinion should be based on facts.
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Most black families went from the South to the city. My family went from the South to the city to the suburbs because they wanted their children to have the realization of the suburban lifestyle. What does it mean that that doesn't actually protect you?
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Whether it was the Alaskan pipeline disaster or the Texas City refinery fire where 15 people died, time after time it's been shown that BP chooses expediency over safety.
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I didn't know folk music growing up, no. It's something I've come to study, really, because I think there's so much to learn from traditional music in the sense of the way music began as a way of communication, the traveling storyteller, the bard, the minstrels.
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The greatest pleasure I know is to do a good action by stealth and have it found out by accident.
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If they had a social gospel in the days of the prodigal son, somebody would have given him a bed and a sandwich and he never would have gone home.
