Vance Havner Quotes
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
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I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.
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I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.
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We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
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If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
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If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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I think a lot about when times were simpler, when I was still dancing and living with my parents. I really miss living at home sometimes. I get really sad.
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Wherever slavery is, it has been first introduced without law. The oldest laws we find concerning it, are not laws introducing it; but regulating it, as an already existing thing.
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I'm embracing many different things, but it's all feel-good.
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Our goal is very simply to become the desktop for e-businesses.
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Tennis has had a very positive impact on my life.
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But coercion never produces harmony. How harmonious are people who are being forced to act against their will? Most likely, those who are coerced will resent those who benefit from the coercion. This sets group against group; it doesn't bring them together.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
