Vance Havner Quotes
The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.
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I propose to fight it out on this line if it takes all summer.
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I suffer greatly from nerves. I have stage-fright badly, and it gets worse, but the stage is still my life.
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When you can score three goals without the most prolific scorer in the world, you know you have a lot of depth, and it gives you confidence.
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If I wasn't five-foot, I wouldn't be who I am! My size is a huge part of me.
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In England especially, I've found that if you bring up King Edward VIII and Wallis Simpson at a dinner party or a social gathering, it's like throwing a Molotov cocktail into the room.
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A good amount of the guys wanted to date me. Even older guys looking at me. It took some getting used to.
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I'm a bubbling brew of emotions, but mostly, I'm an optimistic person.
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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
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Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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For 'Way Down Low', I was particularly inspired by a breakup I was going through and a transition I was making from Austin to New York.
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A pulp story without a detective and, obviously, somebody for him to do battle with is unthinkable, and I can't remember reading a pulp story that didn't have a dame - either a good girl or a bad girl.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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I had a ball doing Harry Potter.
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Unfortunately, I think there's not enough education about hydration. When I was young, we knew nothing about it. We all know that there's cases of athletes having serious issues because of dehydration and even dying.
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'The Lego Movie?' I've never heard of it.
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The imperative is to define what is right and do it.
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I lived for a year in Scotland. British sign language is very different from American.
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Being transgender isn't a medical transition. It's a process of learning to love yourself for who you are.
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I can remember living in the housing projects and being broke like it was yesterday.
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The most dangerous thing I've ever encountered was a run-in with Boko Haram around 2007 in a small town in Nigeria. I got caught along with the photographer I was working with, the same one I worked with on the Afghanistan book, Seamus Murphy. We were caught in an attack by a mob after Friday prayers. And the level of violence was so extreme. It was more violent than any other mob violence I have ever seen.
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If you want a simple model for predicting the unemployment rate in the United States over the next few years, here it is: It will be what Greenspan wants it to be, plus or minus a random error reflecting the fact that he is not quite God.
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The devil is in constant conspiracy against a preacher who really prays, for it has been said that what a minister is in his prayer closet is what he is, no more, no less.
