Nguyen Van Thuan Quotes
“ In order to hold on firmly to your faith, you must choose the Road of Hope followed by the disciples of Christ and not the road to death offered by the world ”
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One of the greatest boons that can ever come to a human being is to be born on a farm and reared in the country. Self-reliance and grit are oftenest country-bred.
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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One can not impede scientific progress.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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I played softball for a few years growing up. Both my brothers played baseball.
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The dove act? I'm still working on it. I don't think it's perfect yet. I got my first pair of doves when I was 14 years old. That was the beginning of the formation of that act. So it's been 24 years now that I've been working on it.
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I'm not a universalist, and the way I talk about final loss is this: People worship idols - money, whatever. Their humanness gets reshaped around the idol - you become like what you worship. That's one of the basic spiritual laws.
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LeBron James can get a shot off under any and all circumstances and he makes them.
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To me, 'rock star' conjures up something like a mystic: someone who sees himself as above other people, someone who has the key to the secret that people want to know.
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I've lived in the Hamptons since 1978, when I first bought my store Barefoot Contessa.
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I wanted to be a comedian, and this is what I'm doing. If I can keep this going, I'm happy.
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If we want girls to receive positive reinforcement for early acts of leadership, let's discourage bossy behavior along with banning bossy labels. That means teaching girls to engage in behaviors that earn admiration before they assert their authority.
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But I won't work with the exact same crew film after film because I feel the work would get a little complacent.
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To me, everything is wonderful. Life is wonderful.
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Unfortunately there was one thing that the white South feared more than Negro dishonesty, ignorance, and incompetency, and that was Negro honesty, knowledge, and efficiency.
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'And I say also this. I do not think the forest would be so bright, nor the water so warm, nor love so sweet, if there were no danger in the lakes.'
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One of the clearest indications of the impending loss of intimacy with one's soul is the failure to recognize the existence of a soul in those over whom power is exercised, especially if the helpless come to be treated as animals, and degraded.
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Make no mistake about it, making a good record is pure, unadulterated pain. If you fall and break your leg-that's pain. But I'm telling you, the phase between pain and death? That's making a good record. It's extreme.
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People's intolerance, I find puzzling.
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I do think you can change the past and the present somehow. Even if something has already happened, it doesn't mean it's settled.
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One of the things I do is try to get a positive message out there in the local schools and tell my story. I also do a lot of faith-based speaking, sharing my story and testimony, to help show what God has done in my life and what he can do in others' lives.
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I believe the death of Bobby Kennedy was in many ways the death of decency in America. I think it was the death of manners and formality, the death of poetry and the death of a dream.
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I think a lot of bad things have happened in the name of the church and in the name of Christ. Therefore I shy away from church...
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“ In order to hold on firmly to your faith, you must choose the Road of Hope followed by the disciples of Christ and not the road to death offered by the world ”
