Vance Havner Quotes
Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.
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To stay interested in tennis, I have to mix it up with other things.
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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Starting in business is like getting married... there is really no good time and no bad time. The time is now.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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There's a great tradition in storytelling that's thousands of years old, telling stories about kings and their palaces, and that's really what I wanted to do.
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I just don't think men fancy me.
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Mitt Romney and Paul Ryan understand that government does not create jobs. Entrepreneurs do.
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As long as my family's OK, I'll be fine.
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Storms and darkness scared me, but somehow it encouraged me to learn about nature and I think nothing's dark, dark is beautiful too.
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I was a 'Duck Hunt' and 'Mario' guy, and stuff like that. I was never technologically driven. I never had all the cool, new toys. I was the youngest child, I wasn't the only child, so I wasn't spoiled as a kid. And, we were on the farm, so we didn't have a lot. Also, with computers, I'm not very good with them. I just check my email.
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We have plenty of technologies we could use to destroy the planet, and we don't. There's more love on this planet than hate; there's more creativity than destructive power.
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I do my own thing. And I believe what I do is the right thing.
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My definition of country music is really pretty simple. It's when someone sings about their life and what they know, from an authentic place.
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For the first five years of my life, things felt pretty good. A lot went wrong after that, family-wise.
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Working with Bill Cosby was incredible. I was lucky to be a part of that.
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Daniel Ellsberg showed tremendous courage back in the '70s.
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I don't know what the future holds. I just try to do roles that I haven't done before.
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I'm so lucky I got a career in my 30s because these young girls aren't allowed to have their 20s. It's all being documented.
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One of the big questions in the climate change debate: Are humans any smarter than frogs in a pot? If you put a frog in a pot and slowly turn up the heat, it won't jump out. Instead, it will enjoy the nice warm bath until it is cooked to death. We humans seem to be doing pretty much the same thing.
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Here’s my mantra: ‘Every mile is a gift.’
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I know a lot of people that don't pray or anything, and that's fine - but I need to. I don't even want to call it prayer, I just want to call it talking to something bigger than me.
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Sometimes your medicine bottle has on it, 'Shake well before using.' That is what God has to do with some of His people. He has to shake them well before they are ever usable.
