J. I. Packer Quotes
Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.
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I'm profoundly lucky. I really like it. I really like my work. I've liked it since I was 5 years old.
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My professional and human obsession is the nature of language, and my best relationships are with other writers. In many ways, I know George Eliot better than I know my husband.
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To be slandered the way I get slandered is really uncalled for, but life goes on.
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The Canadian franchises and Canada as a market for NHL hockey has always been a priority for us.
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Death is less bitter punishment than death's delay.
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I'd like to imagine that in order to beat me a person would have to play almost perfect tennis.
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We need to take command of the solar system to gain that wealth, and to escape the sea of paper our government is becoming, and for some decent chance of stopping a Dinosaur Killer asteroid.
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The two centre-backs, Rob Huth and Wes Morgan, are in many ways journeyman pros, but they have that wonderful attitude and never-say-die spirit that has culminated in them being top of the league.
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It's always an inner wish of every actor to reach out to maximum audiences.
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Teams that play together beat those teams with superior players who play more as individuals.
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Maybe I'm just purely lucky. If I've come up against obstacles I've always found another way around it.
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The actors in 'Eight Men Out' really know how to play, and the background athletes are all professionals.
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I'm at like 325 pairs right now, give or take. But I've given away about 200 pairs of sneakers. I'm not as big of a collector as I used to be, because I think the game just got weird. Everybody likes to collect now, so it's kind of corny. But I got the essentials.
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How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree.
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I'm not the biggest Miley Cyrus fan. I'm not the risque type.
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A minority group has 'arrived' only when it has the right to produce some fools and scoundrels without the entire group paying for it.
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That's the thing with sci-fi and action roles. You have to play the danger as real. If you don't, you end up with egg on your face. You have to commit. You can't think about how stupid it might look without the special effects.
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I have learned that to have a good friend is the purest of all God's gifts, for it is a love that has no exchange of payment.
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I always accessorize with jewelry. I am a bit of a magpie; I love sparkles, and so wearing jewelry makes me feel more exciting and confident, too!
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I try to make myself happy, no, because I know that if I'm not happy, my colleagues are not happy and my shareholders are not happy and my customers are not happy.
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I made a very concerted decision to go to drama school in the United States. But I did have the opportunity to go to Britain's Central School of Speech and Drama, and my dad and I had a few tense words about that. He wanted me to go to British drama school.
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The main reason we are held hostage by the most destructive technology on earth is simple: the complete lack of international resolve to ban nuclear weapons and banish them from the arsenals of the world.
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I do not believe in race as such. Race is a fraud. All modern people are the conglomeration of so many ethnic mixtures that no pure race remains.
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Once you become aware that the main business that you are here for is to know God, most of life's problems fall into place of their own accord.
