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 think anyone who's ever gone through adolescence and wanted something from their parents knows the basic tenets of a con.
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When you appear on the screen, often enough you become sexy, even if you look like an elephant.
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Because when you have millions of people with this kind of need for gratification, and the culture is saying that it's possible for everyone to satisfy all of their needs and desires all of the time, there are obviously going to be clashes - clashes of ego.
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Not many people were speaking truth to power in the '80s. I had a really good time doing it - I found it gratifying. It was a joy to have an opportunity to say what you believed. It's challenging to do it in fiction, but I liked writing the novels. I liked writing 'Democracy' particularly.
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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.
