Alvin Plantinga Quotes
In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility.
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I think one thing that kids who grow up on farms really have going for them is they have exposure to death and birth in a totally different way. I think it takes away a little bit of the mystery and a little bit of the fear, and I do wish I had that. And I wish I was able to grow my own food.
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The marketability, the success of a book, ultimately rests with whether or not people will find the concept/characters/title/cover appealing.
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I want to be acting until the day I die!
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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When I went to Africa, I was reduced to floods of tears every day.
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Most ballets are more interesting than most men.
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Technology is one of the key drivers of female economic empowerment, but the fields that women choose to participate in are still decidedly gendered.
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For women especially, it's important to be financially independent.
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My father danced a lot. He was called 'the French Fred Astaire.'
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I'm good at keeping secrets.
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I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle -And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret.
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It was the coldest winter ever! I thought last winter was the coldest winter ever, but I was fucking wrong, wasn't I? You see, because I travel all the time. So last winter, I'd be in the midwest, and the blizzard would hit. And then I'd fly home, AND THE BLIZZARD WOULD HIT AGAIN!
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It is one thing to see your friend dance around a table when she's 25, quite another thing to see her doing it when she's 62.
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The greats are 'The Shining', 'Rosemary's Baby', 'Don't Look Now', 'The Exorcist' - those movies were not really slashers: they were about psychological terror and had very deep emotional backdrops. If we do our best, '6 Miranda Drive' can be that kind of a movie.
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Entering 2015, the coal industry clearly continues to face significant challenges.
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I live in London and I love living in a gun free environment and long may it continue.
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Economic theory dictates that the value of a company is basically the present value of its future profits. To estimate Facebook's value through its future profits, we need to have a view on its user growth and how this will evolve in the next 10 to 50 years.
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If you got something you don't want other people to know, keep it in your pocket.
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I wanted to train more for the outdoor season than the indoor season, so I changed my training totally.
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I was raised Jehovah's Witness. I was in Bible school at five or six years old, but I wouldn't say that we were a religious family.
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I'm not myself religious but have no wish to insult or denigrate those who are.
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The story is not in the words; it's in the struggle.
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In religious belief as elsewhere, we must take our chances, recognizing that we could be wrong, dreadfully wrong. There are no guarantees; the religious life is a venture; foolish and debilitating error is a permanent possibility.
