J. I. Packer Quotes
I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
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I've traveled all the way around the world; I've been to over 95 countries, so I love ethnic food, different types of cuisine.
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In 1997, I, along with 200 other young ophthalmologists formed the National Board of Ophthalmology to protest the American Board of Ophthalmology's decision to grandfather in the older ophthalmologists and not require them to recertify.
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I was very influenced by movies; I was very influenced by a world that had a sense of dream.
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There's not much room for eccentricity in Hollywood, and eccentricity is what's sexy in people.
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Mel will always be Mad Max, and me, I will always be a Number.
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I'm trying to play parts which are a little more out there, but I want variety.
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Writing sessions can last an hour or sixteen hours, depending on how it's going.
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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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The really wonderful thing that happened to me when I was in space was this feeling of belonging to the entire universe.
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Security was another reason. You never know what can happen to you when you earn a lot of money.
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I'm entirely self-taught, which I think is both a blessing and a curse.
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If birth matters, midwives matter. In Europe, there are hospitals where the cesarean rate is less than 10%, and you'll find midwives in these hospitals, you'll see a lot less re-admissions with infections and complications, and you'll see a lot less injury to mothers.
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As a universal history of philosophy, the history of philosophy must become one great unity.
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I don't really see any barrier between teenage fiction and adult literature.
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I'm gonna make my records, whether I release them as Bleachers or something else.
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I loved to read and to write, but then something happened. As I made my way through school, I kept getting handed books to read that didn't excite me and didn't even remotely connect to the realities of my life.
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All I can do is put out the good stuff, and people will make the decision on whether they like it. My fans are very intelligent people. They're not stupid. They know what's good.
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The future is purchased by the present.
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Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
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I started out as a lawyer and came in laterally to Goldman Sachs. So I learned myself that life is unpredictable. That you really should, in terms of your career, try to be excellent at what you're doing. I think if you focus on your job, and you focus on being broad in the context of your job, the next jobs follow from that.
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I was a subject of ridicule and lectures about the basics of crystallography. The leader of the opposition to my findings was the two-time Nobel Laureate Linus Pauling, the idol of the American Chemical Society and one of the most famous scientists in the world.
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I think my real depressions started when I was about 16 and doing The Patty Duke Show. I would go to bed at about 10 o'clock on a Friday night and not get up again until 6:30 Monday morning.
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The degree of civilization in a society can be judged by entering its prisons.
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I must ask the Lord to direct the Holy Spirit within me to drain the life out of sin and in prayer.
