Vance Havner Quotes
We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.
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We were both in love with him. I fell out of love with him, but he didn't.
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Parodies of commercials are by no means new and have been popular going back to black-and-white TV shows of the '50s.
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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 never sell a book. I sell myself. And the way to sell yourself is to be an instrument of love.
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The goal in life is to be solid, whereas the way that life works is totally fluid, so you can never actually achieve that goal.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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The shoe that fits one person pinches another; there is no recipe for living that suits all cases.
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When the news is good, the BBC view is: 'Get the government out of the picture quickly, don't allow them to say anything about it.' When the news is bad: 'Let's all dump on the government.'
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As a teenager you are at the last stage in your life when you will be happy to hear that the phone is for you.
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When you give a lot of confidence in people and you don't get it back, you are a bit disappointed, but it's life.
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When the CEO makes a decision, people don't come back on it.
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I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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If you only believe that you're an artist when you have a big advance in your pocket and a single coming out, I would say that's quite soulless. You have to have a sense of your own greatness and your own ability from a very deep place inside you. I am the one with the litmus test in my hands of what people need to hear next.
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So if I get these actors for 30% of their price by coming in so late with an offer when they know they are not getting another offer then I do it this way.
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In the Depression we had to divert corn acreage.
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Poetry is that sentiment of the soul, or faculty of the mind, which enables its possessor to appreciate and realize the heights and depths of human experience. It is the power to feel pleasure or suffer pain in all its exquisiteness and intensity.
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We are quite at ease in this no man's land of ignorance and doubt and dispute, absorbed in the ambiguities of trying to reach truth by mixing fact with invention.
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Even before ObamaCare, the government took care of the bottom 5 or 10 percent of the public who were on Medicaid.
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My first husband dragged me out of London and made me live in the suburbs in Surrey - not where you want to be when you're 23.
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The day when we plan seriously to start living either never comes or it comes too late.
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Government today is growing too strong to be safe. There are no longer any citizens in the world there are only subjects. They work day in and day out for their masters they are bound to die for their masters at call. Out of this working and dying they tend to get less and less.
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We need a dedicated minority who, like the apostles of old, are willing to be called the scum of the earth and a spectacle to the world for the scandal of the cross.
