Alvin Plantinga Quotes
The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are not widely shared outside the Christian or theistic community is interesting but fundamentally irrelevant.
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A lot of people try to paint this child actor stigma, but I always looked at it as a great opportunity.
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Celine Dion is my major inspiration.
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I run a solid 4-6 miles at a time, and over the last year two years I've gotten really into SoulCycle. It's sort of an evolved form of spinning.
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Playing tough characters just comes easy for me. It's not who I am in real life, so I love going to work and pretending to be something I'm not. I love all the action and confidence. But when I finally go do a rom-com, I hope my fans will support me.
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I'm just totally into being strong. There's something about wanting to get a jar or whatever out of a high cupboard, or moving a sofa over because my dog's bone rolled under it, and not having to call anyone for help. There's comfort in that.
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Romance should never begin with sentiment. It should begin with science and end with a settlement.
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'Prom' is a movie that follows a bunch of high-schoolers' lives leading up to the prom, the climax of the movie. It focuses all their struggles and the social pressures that prom creates on their lives.
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Take advantage of the years of pioneering efforts. You might find this boring, as the young want to rush head on, as it were.
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Contrary to many of the rumors and innuendo in circulation, I wholeheartedly believe that Obama views Israel's security as absolute.
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Beauty is truth's smile when she beholds her own face in a perfect mirror.
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I just thought acting would be something to help out with my student loans, but my first year as an actress, I made more money than my parents. That's when I realized it could turn into a career. After that, I put everything I had into it.
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If I was a star, it would be difficult to go off and do 'Coronation Street.' So I guess I'm not a star.
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The hand of God creates; it does not conceal.
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Beware of harking back to what you once were when God wants you to be something you have never been.
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The first step towards attaining a higher standard of holiness is to realize more fully the amazing sinfulness of sin.
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From the earliest time the old have rubbed it into the young that they are wiser, and before the young had discovered what nonsense this was they were old too, and it profited them to carry on the imposture.
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I overcame myself, the sufferer; I carried my own ashes to the mountains; I invented a brighter flame for myself.
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More matter with less art.
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When you leave a pimp, you leave with nothing.
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The outcome, if successful, in both alchemy and individuation is a union of opposites—the coniunctionis or transcendent function—leading to alchemical gold, the philosopher’s stone, the elixir of life, or, in Jungian terms, the Self.
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One night love affair, pretending we don't care, and now we're left with nothing.
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When I am gone, I do not want men to say Look at his piles of wealth, his cities, his palaces and fine clothes.” Genghis paused for a moment. “Instead I want them to say Make sure he is truly dead. He is a vicious old man and he conquered half the world.
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The Christian philosopher has a perfect right to the point of view and prephilosophical assumptions he brings to philosophic work; the fact that these are not widely shared outside the Christian or theistic community is interesting but fundamentally irrelevant.
