Tony Snow Quotes
We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.
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People who attack others need rationalizations for doing so. We undermine those rationalizations.
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Growing up, in my under-15 days I used to be a wicketkeeper, and that carried on till I was 17. Then I started focusing on my batting and moved on. I got into the Ranji team quite early, and generally, as a youngster, the first place you are put in is at bat-pad and short leg, so you had to work on your close-in fielding straightaway.
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I usually write my music on a piano, and I really enjoy performing that way, because that actually shows how the music was in my mind before it actually became an electronic song.
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You can think of Hollywood as high school. TV actors are freshmen, comedy actors are maybe juniors, and dramatic actors - they're the cool seniors.
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Find joy and solace in the simple, and cultivate your utopia by feeling the Tao in every cubic inch of space.
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Writing and directing, to me, was the logical evolution from my life as an actor: going from telling someone else's story to actually creating my own. Perhaps one day I will do all three: write, direct, and act in the same production. That might get a little hectic, though.
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Like any young person who gets into a political campaign, I joined out of a highfalutin' desire to change the world. But you start to see the sort of tactics people use. You start to see politics not only in the macro but in the micro of the campaign itself. Some people get turned off by this side of it. Other people are drawn to it.
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I had the idea that I should beat up every player I tangled with and nothing ever convinced me it wasn't a good idea.
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Mothers, of course, are all right. They pay a chap's bills and don't bother him. But fathers bother a chap and never pay his bills.
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'Brotherhood: Homage to Claudius Ptolemy'
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I have been accused of being a joker. But the most successful art to me involves humor.
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The creative act requires both will and intelligence. Breaking things is easy. You only need a hammer.
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Science has done more for the development of Western civilization in one hundred years than Christianity did in eighteen hundred.
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I believe the best poetry of our times is growing too artistic; the study is too visible. If freedom and naturalness are lost out of poetry, everything worth having is lost.
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If I think about what life is, I believe life is a miracle. And if I think about what a miracle is, I don’t believe in it.
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Hollywood is what you make it; you have to choose company with care because you become what they are.
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I am definitely a beach person. In fact, I am so much a beach person that my wife is allergic to beaches now.
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Every movie changes you. The process of making a film changes you.
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Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women.
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I decided upon the thought that I can only find myself once I can admit to myself and approve that both sides are sides of myself.
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I want to know how God created this world. I'm not interested in this or that phenomenon, in the spectrum of this or that element. I want to know His thoughts, the rest are details.
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Through it all, I've learned to trust that God does indeed have a plan and purpose for me. Trust doesn't come into play when you can figure everything out; that's mere reason. Trust operates when you can't understand why circumstances or events happen. That's where it takes faith to believe that God knows what is best for our lives.
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My son calls another man daddy He'll never know my name nor my face God only knows how it hurts me for another to be in my place
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We want lives of simple, predictable ease-smooth, even trails as far as the eye can see-but God likes to go off-road.
