Vance Havner Quotes
Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
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If you say one gets influenced watching a character, I think it's foolish. Cinema reflects society; society rarely reflects cinema.
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To be honest, marriage doesn't scare me and that, it's just once you've been together for so long, if you haven't got any kids it's just a big expensive day out for everyone else to enjoy, isn't it?
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Some days the competition would beat me and I'd go home thinking awful thoughts, want to hide under the bed, depressed. But of course, in the news business, when you're working a daily news broadcast, you get your victories and defeats every day.
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The 'Room 93' EP was just kind of picking apart the sense of voyeurism and the sense of isolation and turning it into, essentially, a little black book and reflecting on - at that time - 19 years of me forming relationships with people.
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Whenever I'm caught between two evils, I take the one I've never tried.
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America's fine, nice, nice hiking near L.A. But I am European. I love London and Paris. Friends and intellect, big thought, why not?
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Risk is to do something that 99 percent of the time would be a failure.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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As far as money goes, there's a saying in Denmark: 'Your last suit doesn't have any pockets.' You can't take it with you. You can make all the money you want, but who cares?
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Each one of us requires the spur of insecurity to force us to do our best.
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I don't know how to cook and there's so much work involved you have to buy the groceries and prepare them. I like it when people cook for me, or I'll just order some take-out.
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If the lives of men can be measured in terms of years, ideologies in decades, and nations in centuries, then the unit measuring civilizations, born of the interaction among peoples, would be the millennium.
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Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.
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I am Classic Rock Revisited. I revisit it every waking moment of my life because it has the spirit and the attitude and the fire and the middle finger. I am Rosa Parks with a Gibson guitar.
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I've never seen a worse situation than that of young writers in the United States. The publishing business in North America is so commercialized.
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I think what people respond to, and what they're responding to so strongly, is I'm very myself on stage. What you see in person is very much who I am on stage.
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For me, Warhol made so much sense.
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I'm just trying to tell a nice story. Whether you're a writer or a producer, all you want to do is tell a good yarn.
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The time comes upon every public man when it is best for him to keep his lips closed.
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Being typecast is a great thing for an actor. I was considered one of the New York mob actors.
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Ah, the life of a newspaper cartoonist - how I miss the groupies, drugs and trashed hotel rooms!
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Marriage can be a magnificent lesson in becoming our best selves; that is true.
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Hail, hail rock and roll; deliver me from the days of old. Long live rock and roll; the beat of the drums, loud and bold. Rock, rock, rock and roll; the feelin' is there, body and soul.
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Most church members live so far below the standard, you would have to backslide to be in fellowship with them.
