Vance Havner Quotes
There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.
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I don't think I have a signature.
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To be honest, proper recognition has only come from the fans. I don't want to be hard, and I don't want to be negative, but I want to be honest.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Our minds are like our stomaches; they are whetted by the change of their food, and variety supplies both with fresh appetite.
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What really makes it fun for an actor is when the script is good.
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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 don't know how to make Harper and Alloy want me, not just my name.
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The lives of African-Americans in this country are characterized by violence for most of our history. Much of that violence, at least to some extent, you know, done by the very state that's supposed to protect them.
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While 'Precious' isn't a real person, it's someone's story, and it's too many peoples' story.
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The happy combination of fortuitous circumstances.
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I'm like all parents who try to shelter their children.
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Most men today cannot conceive of a freedom that does not involve somebody's slavery.
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My one issue in this country is to get on a firm financial footing. There's not much you can do if you're bankrupt.
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I want Bolivians to support their president.
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God has just given me such an amazing journey and able to play; it's been so much fun. I'm having a blast!
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People think of teachers who are born to teach, and you think of all these charismatic folks. Some of the most successful teachers are some of the least charismatic, interestingly. But they have a gift of figuring out what motivates people.
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If one is not going to take the necessary precautions to avoid having parents, one must undertake to bring them up.
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I wish the world could better know this country for what it really is. Not just a greedy economic giant crouching fearfully behind its walls, not just a panoplied warrior nervously fingering his weapons. What is this, is a people who gather together in thousands to give a people's government its essential vitality.
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It may be a question whether machinery does not encumber; whether we have not lost by refinement some energy, by a Christianity entrenched in establishments and forms, some vigor of wild virtue. For every Stoic was a Stoic; but in Christendom where is the Christian?
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As the world continues its love affair with smartphones and tablets, mobile has become so essential to our lives that most people couldn't imagine life without it.
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There never has been a culture since this world began in which a New Testament Christian could feel at home.
