Vance Havner Quotes
We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.
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Fashion is very tough, and we shouldn't forget that before designers were money-makers, they were artists.
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Industry is extremely slow in readjusting itself to the manufacture of modern consumer goods.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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The student will try to defy the master. Always.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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In many ways, Scotland will benefit more than other parts of the UK when Universal Credit comes in. A larger percentage of people will see an increase in their income through moving into work or taking on more hours.
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If I had been straight, I would have been an entirely different person. I would never have turned toward writing with a burning desire to confess, to understand, to justify myself in the eyes of others... I wouldn't have been impelled to live in New York and choose the hard poverty of bohemia over the soft comfort of the business world.
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Jay Leno is not a guy who likes change. He eats the same food every day.
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You're blessed if you have the strength to work.
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So if I get pegged as a bikini girl, that's fine, and that can still translate into acting or other areas. But, no, I don't wanna be doing bikini shoots my whole life.
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I don't see a benefit in accepting every single little morsel of work that comes along because I think, in essence, what you're doing is you're raping yourself really.
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I'm cut from a different cloth. I would never moon someone. I was raised in a good family.
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Torture is such a slippery slope; as soon as you allow a society or any legal system to do that, almost instantly you get a situation where people are being tortured for very trivial reasons.
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Canadians look down on the United States and consider it Hell. They are right to do so. Canada is to the United States what, in Dante's scheme, Limbo is to Hell.
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It is the unseen and the spiritual in people that determines the outward and the actual.
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I love Mount Fuji and I think it is my love of the mountains in Japan that led me to seek other mountains around the world.
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I was raised to think that rock was music for ignorant people who didn't think for themselves.
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I don't believe in failure. It is not failure if you enjoyed the process.
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There is only one real number: one. And love, apparently, is the best exponent of this singularity.
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I guess the first time I played around Washington, D.C. was at a place called The Famous. That was the first place I played, I believe.
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I like people who are passionate, who have persevered, and who are clearly humble and not arrogant.
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Of course we've lost so many superstars who've made jazz what it is. We've lost so many musicians who created new things and changed the way we think about music and who took jazz to a new level. So jazz is suffering from that. But we still have a lot of incredible people playing jazz in the world. We have a lot of people leading the way.
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Passion means suffering and compassion means suffering together. Suffering produces perseverance and perseverance produces character and character produces hope. And that lifts people up, knowing they're not alone.
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We are suffering from a believism that never has believed, and a receivism that never has received, and it leads to deceivism.
