Arthur W. Pink Quotes
Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.
Quotes to Explore
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The 'Agent X' set was never boring. During the first few days, I had to adjust to the loud noise on set, which included gun shots and explosions. After we finished filming the season, I realized I missed hearing all the noise and driving on empty freeways.
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I'm not an anti-capitalist, or anarchist. I want capitalism to work.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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I look upon another's insistence on the merits of his or her life - duties, intellect, accomplishment - and see that most of it is nonsense.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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The world I want to live in is a world where everybody is a bit more uncertain about their arguments and is a bit more open to other people's arguments. I think that we can engage ideas without ad hominem attacks.
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Sometimes there are some matchups and man-to-mans that you like to match up on.
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I love to fly so much.
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I don't steer towards anything. I steer towards character and truth. If it's funny then so be it. If it's dramatic, so be it. I just steer towards characters.
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The peak of a career can only last so long. You go up and you try to maintain it. But, it can only last so long and then you're going to go down.
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Live your questions now, and perhaps even without knowing it, you will live along some distant day into your answers.
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For 'The Theory of Everything,' I was quite low down on a list of actors for the role, and I got the opportunity as a consequence of people saying no to it. So I have been very, very lucky.
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The rich are not a contented tribe. The demands from others to share their wealth become so tiresome, so insistent, they often decide they must insulate themselves. Insulation eventually breeds a mild form of paranoia.
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Ce besoin de l’immatériel est le plus vivace de tous. Il faut du pain; mais avant le pain, il faut l’idéal.
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Only sterility is noble and dignified. Only killing what never was is elevated and perverse and absurd.
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I got to get your presence Let's make it known I think you're just so pleasant I would like you for my own
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I won't be waitin' any more cause I know Baby, baby I was made for you
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Chefs aren't celebrities: they're chefs.
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The Caldecott Award has allowed me to keep doing what I'm doing for some time longer, for which I am ever grateful.
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With solitude, however, fervently it is desired and embraced, comes loneliness. T. H White, the author, offered advice to those in sadness - learn something new.
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The external view of agency forces itself on us at the same time that we resist it. One way this occurs is through the gradual erosion of what we do by the subtraction of what happens.
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I think if you socialize, dine with, spend time with known terrorists that are on the list of those who want to do harm to America, you put yourself in peril. I don't dine, socialize or spend time with people who are on the terrorist lists.
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Timeless comes to mind. When you listen to it, you can't tell what year the thing was made. And you don't even care.
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Prayer is not so much an act as it is an attitude - an attitude of dependency, dependency upon God.
