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.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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 want people to learn what democracy means.
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I guess I just feel bad that I'm still going on bad dates when I should really be in a bad marriage by now.
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I hope to read a Harry Potter novel soon, to see what it's all about. I admit to being annoyed that many good light fantasy writers have had trouble getting published, in England and elsewhere, when it is obvious the readers were waiting for us all along.
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The eye is much more dynamic than any camera.
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I didn't have a life until I went up onstage.
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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.
