J. I. Packer Quotes
The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.
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How much do you engage yourself in what's truly real and important in life? That's the individual question.
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Phrases that have historical significance or become headlines don't just magically appear in the moment. They are mindfully planned.
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I just want to do my job.
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My attitude is always one of sensuality, aggressive enthusiasm and a kind of outrageousness in my expression.
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Coming out of college with a degree in fine arts and painting isn't worth much any more.
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My idea is just to do something different each time; the next thing I do has to be completely different to the thing I've done before - that's what I try and do, because you know, I'm an actor, not a film star.
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Communicating with teenage girls is easy unless you're an adult, and then it's like having someone take a pair of pliers and, one-by-one, yank off your fingernails through your ears.
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My daddy used to say that I was too big to ride and too little to hitch a wagon - no good for a damn thing.
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It is amazing that it is my destiny to be the first Aussie to win the Masters.
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'Swallow Me Whole' is still the creation that's closest to my heart.
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We have agreed with Prime Minister Ariel Sharon to cease all acts of violence against the Israelis and against the Palestinians wherever they are. Tranquility and quiet that will be witnessed and in our land, starting today, is the beginning for a new era.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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I believe with all my heart that the American classroom teachers are one of our greatest and most heroic treasures.
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My father has a general rule. He says if I haven't done it in real life I shouldn't do it on-screen.
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I had that hunger to work and keep growing. So I started to cut hair. When I started getting better, I got my own barbershop. I had a lot of clients in my hometown, so I wouldn't stop cutting hair. That's why I think I have such discipline in my job because I've always been very responsible.
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I should have a better CV, and that's knocked me into believing that I have to grab these opportunities while I can.
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I do believe that in order to be a successful negotiator that as a diplomat, you have to be able to put yourself into the other person's shoes. Unless you can understand what is motivating them, you are never going to be able to figure out how to solve a particular problem.
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Everybody loves vampire stories, and if there's one show in particular that's done really well, it just opens the door and the opportunity for more of those kind of stories to get through.
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The potential beauty of human life is constantly made ugly by man's ever recurring song of retaliation. The oceans of history are made turbulent by the ever rising tides of revenge. Man has never risen above the injunction of the lex talionis: "Life for life, eye for eye, tooth for tooth, hand for hand, foot for foot." In spite of the fact that the law of revenge solves no social problems, men continue to follow its disastrous leading. History is cluttered with the wreckage of nations and individuals that pursued this self-defeating path.
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I've always been really private about my personal life. I don't talk about it.
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When we were fighting communism, OK, they had mass murderers and gulags, but they were white men and they were sane. Now we're up against absolutely insane savages.
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The spotlight will always be on me, but it's something I'm learning to live with as the years go by.
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The Puritan ethic of marriage was first to look not for a partner whom you do love passionately at this moment but rather for one whom you can love steadily as your best friend for life, then to proceed with God’s help to do just that.
