Abraham Kuyper Quotes
The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
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I try to avoid saying 'fantastic' too often and 'obviously' is a dangerous word for all broadcasters.
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Lord of the Rings made me realize that I'm not interested in doing anyone else's work.
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Even if you walk exactly the same route each time - as with a sonnet - the events along the route cannot be imagined to be the same from day to day, as the poet's health, sight, his anticipations, moods, fears, thoughts cannot be the same.
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I've had to fight for roles and I've lost a hundred roles, but 'Smoking' and 'Smith' were phone calls. That's the dream.
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Paris and Nicky Hilton? Those girls will show up to the opening of a phone book. It's like a big joke.
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I'm not interested in just beautiful girls and beautiful clothes.
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I don't deny the importance of genetics. However, the fact that I might be altruistic isn't because I have a gene for altruism; the fact that I do something for my children at some cost to myself comes from a history that has operated on me.
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I hate the giving of the hand unless the whole man accompanies it.
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If America don't come around, we're gonna' burn it down.
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My job isn't to preach to people, it's to entertain them. I like letting the characters speak for themselves.
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I never go to temples, but when I see a child, I see God in them.
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Los Angeles was great fun because it was the polar opposite of Moscow in 1980. It was sunny and bright, lots of colours around, whereas Moscow was dark and oppressive.
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As it relates to society in general, I think we are inviting God's judgment on our nation when we shake our fist at him and say, 'We know better than you as to what constitutes a marriage.'
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I'd never stop traveling, and I love bringing my family along with me. My children have points of reference everywhere, friends from Milan to Los Angeles. I think it's really fun for them.
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Kristen Stewart always looks good - she wears what she wants. It's the same with Alison Mosshart - she chooses clothes that she loves rather than what she thinks she should wear.
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I want to give kids that fall-off-the-bed-laughing feeling. Either that, or the sixth-grade feeling that life is hard - sometimes unbearably hard - and it is ultimately about death. But in the meantime, life can be really funny, too.
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When you have birds you stare at them a lot and their eyes are recessed on their head. When they look at something they tilt their head in a quizzical expression.
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If you look at any other group of people suffering injustice, women are always in the worst situation within that group.
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Some of the most patriarchal thinkers I know are women. Some of the most feminist thinkers are men.
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I know that I have still before me a difficult path to traverse. I must reduce myself to zero. So long as a man does not of his own free will put himself last among his fellow creatures, there is no salvation for him. Ahimsa is the farthest limit of humility.
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I'd rather learn from one bird how to sing than teach ten thousand stars how not to dance.
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All music does come from a time and place. I was born and raised in New York. I moved out of New York, but it's inside of me and it will be inside of me until they put me in a box in the ground.
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I'm a very open person. I like to talk a lot about what I'm going through. It's how I cope with things.
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The seminaries must be like the churches' poor relations, prolonging their existence with austerity.
