J. I. Packer Quotes
God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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I have to be realistic about what I can and can't do. So whatever I do has to really be worth it. I like to master the things I do.
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I like quiet. No television cameras. I'm not the Hollywood type.
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When a politician bends the truth or a CEO breaks a promise, trust takes a beating.
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I've never been that guy who says, 'Ooh, I have to play King Lear'. First off, that'd be a disaster anyway. I tend to read something and see who's involved, and then know I want to be part of it. But I don't think I'm through with comedy. I still love to make people laugh.
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If the British Isles had an official vegetable, it would have to be the potato.
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Only when your consciousness is totally focused on the moment you are in can you receive whatever gift, lesson, or delight that moment has to offer.
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Very often, the judgments by ordinary citizens may be better than those by professional economists, being more rooted in reality and less narrowly focused.
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My grandparents met each other in amateur theatre. My uncle is an actor.
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I don't want to come off as one of those artists that's not down to earth and real.
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I dyed my hair pink when I was fifteen.
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Why was there so much work-sharing in the 1930s? One reason is that government pushed for it. In his memoirs, President Herbert Hoover estimated that as many as two million workers avoided unemployment as a result of his efforts to promote work-sharing.
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I don't do nostalgia. It just doesn't occur to me. I'm living in the moment, and I don't have that gene.
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A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens.
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If you look at Indian movies, every time they wanted an exotic locale, they would have a dance number in Kashmir. Kashmir was India's fairyland. Indians went there because in a hot country you go to a cold place. People would be entranced by the sight of snow.
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I am very lucky that I get to tell stories for a living. I love being able to grab people's attention, to keep them turning the pages, to make them stay awake all night.
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I love who I am and I love my life, but if I could be someone else, I'd be Beyonce in two seconds.
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The cult of the individual is killing us. I think Twitter signals the death of western civilisation, but people have been saying that since Demosthenes.
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I ain't got no quarrel with them Viet Cong.
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With his head in his hands,God thought and thought,Till he thought: I'll make me a man!
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Whenever I see your smiling faceI have to smile myself.Because I love you (Yes, I do).And when you give me that pretty little pout,It turns me inside out.There's something about you, baby (I don't know).
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I've never had a stylist, and I've always chosen my own clothes.
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A man occupied with public or other important business cannot, and need not, attend to spelling.
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God the Father is the giver of Holy Scripture; God the Son is the theme of Holy Scripture; and God the Spirit is the author, authenticator, and interpreter of Holy Scripture.
