Vance Havner Quotes
If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
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Progress, real progress, makes me cry harder than anything. When the world itself grows.
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A writer is a human being. He has to live with a sense of honor.
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It happens that I'm heterosexual, but I don't care about that. I do care about protecting the rights of 10 percent of our population who are homosexual and who don't have the ability to protect their rights.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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There is one thing women can never take away from men. We die sooner.
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Your private life is really very important for you. You know, all of us, you know.
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I got into politics because I was tired of complaining.
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I never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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I've discovered that the standard all-American dream of fame and fortune is not success for me. Success for me is simply the joy of working - doing good work - and then bringing that joy home to my family. But if what I do in my work doesn't enrich my life with my family, I'm doing the wrong thing.
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At no point am I ever threatened by people who question who I am, or why I like the things I do, or my legitimacy. Because I know who I am very strongly, and I think that's what geek culture can reinforce.
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I am not going to share my private life with millions of people. I don't find a need to do that and nobody else close to me does either.
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If you wanted to build an Internet startup in 2005, you had to buy your own servers and hire someone to manage it. Now, that's unheard of.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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The main characters for 'The Seer and the Sword' made an appearance one night and then haunted me for over five years before I began to write them down. Does that count as inspiration? For me, characters tend to show up, stay on to help with the work of writing their stories, and then occasionally deign to visit after a book is finished.
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In a minimal interior, what you don't do is as important as what you do.
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I've never seen anywhere in the world as beautiful as Kashmir. It has something to do with the fact that the valley is very small and the mountains are very big, so you have this miniature countryside surrounded by the Himalayas, and it's just spectacular. And it's true, the people are very beautiful too.
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Typically, a book takes me about a year to write.
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Meeting Mike Nichols was a sort of lifetime occupation.
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What's interesting about the transportation market is that you're often dabbling in multiple categories. The same person who might own a car is still using Uber, is still using a taxi, still might go to Avis on a business trip and rent a car.
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The finest manners in the world are awkwardness and fatuity, when contrasted with a finer intelligence.
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I was born in the Second World War during the Nazi invasion of my country.
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If you are a Christian, you are not a citizen of this world trying to get to heaven; you are a citizen of heaven making your way through this world.
