Vance Havner Quotes
Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.
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I want to coach high school football, and that's always what I've wanted to do.
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I always start the day by washing my face and moisturizing.
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I like being my age. I kind of have a political thing about it.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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One of the darkest evils of our world is surely the unteachable wildness of the Good.
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Anyway, I tried liking Jimmy Corrigan but I couldn't.
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I get paid the same money if I'm fighting on pay-per-view or on Fight Pass, and Fight Pass is just getting started. It's the future. The Internet, many people watch it.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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I view myself as a male artist.
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Our family suffers from a hereditary condition called, generally, mental illness. Specifically, multiple family members in successive generations have suffered from either bipolar disorder or schizophrenia.
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When you grow up in the country in France, you have small horizons.
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Touring helped me understand where I needed to be better in my music.
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I don't know if we are the best team in the world. I am lucky to be playing alongside some of the best players around. It's a dream.
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And a third thing is the understanding of the Church as a community, a communion which is just a hierarchy but the people of God, whose servants are the priests and bishops.
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Not a lot of people know this, but I'm very good at mathematics. When I was an angry teenager, I used to sit in my room and do quadratic equations to calm myself down.
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Green how I want you green. Green wind. Green branches.
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All managers are losers, they are the most expendable pieces of furniture on the face of the Earth.
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I could go off into the wilderness and write fantasy novels for the rest of my life and probably be happy; but I always want to challenge myself.
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In Paris, everybody is in black! But you know, in Ukraine everyone wears bright colours.
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I'd like to be curvier.
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I've worked very hard to transform my fearful delusions into loving beliefs, and I am committed to maintaining this way of being.
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You take all the things that frighten you, and when you can get them to work for you all of sudden people are calling you a success.
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My mother," he said, "has invited us to a ball." Elena pulled a blade from one of the butter-soft forearm sheaths that had been a gift from Raphael. "Excuse me while I stab myself in the eyes-and disembowel myself while I'm at it.
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Life is like a grain of wheat: to plant it is to recognize its value; to keep it is to destroy its value. The 'planted' Christian counts life dear not unto himself but unto God.
