Gene Veith Quotes
One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history.
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As I followed my dream - stayed in-Spirit, that is, inspired - I made more money in the first year after I gave up my employment than I had made in the previous 35 years of my life.
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I remember thinking that people were crazy for reading the same book more than once, but I now have a new-found appreciation for the re-discovery of literature. The lessons we learned from books in the school curriculum are reinvented and updated when we read as adults.
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Personally, I don't like watching violence. I'd much rather see more skin.
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Great events make me quiet and calm; it is only trifles that irritate my nerves.
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I always tell people a clean cooking area is a clean mind which is available for the creativity.
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I've had a few semi-toxic relationships, but it's not what I look for when I'm seeing someone.
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If it's not 100 per cent pure maple syrup, it can't be called 'pure maple syrup.'
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We see past time in a telescope and present time in a microscope. Hence the apparent enormities of the present.
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Some people think that movements, such as the movements in ballet, are a higher cultural expression, whereas some are just dirt. I think it is elitist to think that a trained movement is more acceptable than untrained and possibly unrehearsed movements.
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Every time you do a big sword fight surrounded by a couple of hundred extras, it's a fun day at work.
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Growing up, I always wanted to be in punk bands, so I'm really enjoying the harder, heavier element. It's always been my dream to have people moshing at my gig, kind of that really feral element of the music coming out more. I love crowd-surfing.
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My own death threats have declined considerably.
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We are now confronted with the necessity of remedying the remedies.
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Always remember, Peggy, it's matrimonial suicide to be jealous when you have a really good reason.
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You have to laugh at things in order to let them be what they truly are. Because nothing is only sad. Nothing is only funny. There's context to all of those things.
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I'd like to date another millionaire. I've never done that.
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Fashion never stops. There is always the new project, the new opportunity.
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I think that people in the phase between being someone's kid and being someone's parent have always been uniquely narcissistic, but that social media and Twitter and LiveJournal make it really easy to navel-gaze in a way that you've never been able to before.
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If the saying "the Temple Mount in our hands," is portrayed as incitement to the police, there's no need to change the saying, but the police.
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In a bull market, one must avoid the error of the preening duck that quacks boastfully after a torrential rainstorm, thinking that its paddling skills have caused it to rise in the world. A right-thinking duck would instead compare its position after the downpour to that of the other ducks on the pond.
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The operation of the Church is entirely set up for the sinner; which creates much misunderstanding among the smug.” (August 9, 1955)
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The tragic reality is that there have been occasions when [Mormon] Church leaders, teachers, and writers have not told the truth they knew about difficulties of the Mormon past, but have offered to the Saints instead a mixture of platitudes, half-truths, omissions, and plausible denials.
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I think Russell Crowe is a brilliant actor.
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One would think that [persecution] would be an obstacle to church growth when joining the church meant a death sentence. And yet, the age of persecution was the greatest period of church growth in history.
