J. I. Packer Quotes
For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.
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At the risk of being forgotten completely by the media, I went to college and pursued a passion that had nothing to do with acting: mathematics.
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My kids are free to do what ever they want. Because I only advise. I don't make them do anything.
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One Direction is the main thing I'm doing and I'm 100 per cent dedicated to the group.
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Most people live in the city and go to the country at the weekend, and that's posh and aristocratic, but actually to live in the country and come to London when you can't take it any more is different.
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Several of the actors I've had the good fortune of working with stand out in my mind as 'ultimate'. I guess the obvious would be Tom Hanks, because he really is as fun and as genuine as he comes across in his films and interviews.
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I have always believed that when you're feeling sorry for yourself, the best thing to do is help someone else.
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I've always been about how will digital be transforming established businesses, and that's what I've done.
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'FlashForward' was a really fun show to make. Not to mention, I only worked, like, one day a week, and it paid the same as 'Happy Endings.' I got to make out with beautiful women on that show as well.
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At an unprecedented time with the worst attack ever on our soil, our President displayed extraordinary determination, leadership and resolve when history was thrust upon him and the United States.
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What man is there, surrounded though he be with the love of wife and children, who does not retain a memory of the romantic affection of boys for each other? Having felt it, he could scarcely have forgotten it, and if he never felt it, he missed one of the most golden of the prizes of youth, unrecapturable in mature life.
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I don't want to dig in the truth all of the time. Let me dream.
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I'm moving to Rio permanently with my family. It's one of the places left in the world where people still live with a big charge of poetry on a daily basis. I feel we've kind of lost that here in Europe.
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Since first starting my career, I've grown accustomed to working with actors older than me. I'm always the youngest.
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It's always good to be known. You want to build your brand up, want to build your name.
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I've always wanted to do a lot of things.
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I've had a good life, and was born to and among people I've admired and loved.
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When you're in the music business, everything is very personal, because you are invested in everything; there's a very deep, personal attachment to your music.
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Striving to tell his woes, words would not come; For light cares speak, when mighty griefs are dumb.
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Part of spiritual and emotional maturity is recognizing that it's not like you're going to try to fix yourself and become a different person. You remain the same person, but you become awakened.
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I'm fascinated by power, by those that can be publicly generous and privately ruthless.
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We think we want enjoyment, and that enjoyment is incompatible with work, and somehow we have to import the pleasure into these miserable experiences. That takes for granted that there's not fun or play to be found in the work itself.
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We must change boys from a 'what can I get' to a 'what can I give' attitude.
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For dishonest thinking, however well-intentioned, can only discredit the cause it serves, and must in the long run boomerang disastrously on those who indulge in it.
