Calvin Miller Quotes
Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold—where we trip is where the treasure lies.
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I'm thinking of doing more theatre. It makes me very happy.
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One of the most important reasons for living is to do something - live outside of yourself and put together an idea, an idea that you want to explore and then complete... Awaken your creative sensitivities!
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I've participated in many demonstrations since I was a child. When I was at medical college, I was fighting King Farouk, then British colonization, against Nasser, against Sadat who pushed me into prison, Mubarak who pushed me into exile. I never stopped.
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One must choose in life between boredom and suffering.
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Sentences are not as such either true or false.
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It's not up to the employer to decide or to figure out what religious problems you may have as an employee. In other words, if I'm inquiring about your religious peculiarities or whatever they may be, I'm invading your privacy about that.
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When you do good work, people will notice you.
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If you want others to be happy, practice compassion. If you want to be happy, practice compassion.
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I wasn't opposed to the VCR. The MPAA tried to establish by law that the VCR was infringing on copyright. Then we would go to the Congress and get a copyright royalty fee put on all blank videocassettes and that would go back to the creators.
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One thing I have learned in a long life: that all our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike-and yet it is the most precious thing we have.
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Hence we did not foster competition in our school, on the contrary.
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'We really shouldn't look like a church.' I've heard that so much I want to vomit. 'Why?' I ask. 'Do you want your bank to look like a bank? Do you want your doctor's office to look like a doctor's office, or would you prefer your doctor to dress like a clown?'
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I think that when you rally powerful voices around powerful issues, what you get are positive results.
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I am not a politician but I have dedicated the biggest part of my professional life to economic policy both in Greece and Europe.
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Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.
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Ideologies, however appealing, cannot shape the whole structure of perceptions and conduct unless they are embedded in daily experiences that confirm them.
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I have survived and possibly I should not hope for more than that.
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The worlds of art and fashion have always been very intertwined at Dior. Francois-Xavier Lalanne and his wife, Claude, for instance, did windows for Monsieur Dior. Dior himself was a gallerist before becoming the revolutionary fashion designer we all know.
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I've been waiting for that bright sunshine to show up and shine in my back door someday.
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Nothing builds authority up like silence, splendor of the strong and shelter of the weak.
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We are secure, not because we hold tightly to Jesus, but because He holds tightly to us.
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I love Frank Ocean. We're going to get married. In true life, we should get married.
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There is no insanity so devastating in man's life as utter sanity.
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Tripping is embarrassing, but I have learned that where we stumble is the place we dig for gold—where we trip is where the treasure lies.
