J. I. Packer Quotes
Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.
J. I. Packer
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I was born in East Germany, before the wall came down. We sort of escaped, I guess. I grew up all over the place. Germany, London, back and forth between Minnesota and Germany. I was sort of an army brat, but not in the army.
Falk Hentschel
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
Sam Shepard
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That balance between involvement and detachment is what novelists do. It's the ideal relationship between a novelist and a character, I think, total involvement and identity and empathy, stopping short of being autobiographical - in my case, anyway - but also quite detached.
Pat Barker
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I adore Bette Davis and Vivien Leigh, but more because they were good actresses. That's what makes me interested in them, that they didn't present themselves as idols; they were just doing their jobs.
Imelda Staunton
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No one should ever be forced to choose between food and education, or medicine and shelter when they don't have the resources. It's very unfair.
Rachel Brosnahan
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In the United States, man does not feel that he has been torn from the center of creation and suspended between hostile forces. He has built his own world, and it is built in his own image: it is his mirror. But now he cannot recognize himself in his inhuman objects, nor in his fellows.
Octavio Paz
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I like my body when I have curves. We all come indifferent shapes and sizes, and this is something to celebrate.
Christina Aguilera
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Since the whole world is now concerned more about K-pop, I want to make more great songs which can be listed to as classics.
G-Dragon
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The iPad is an amazing phenomenon. It is disrupting the enterprise. If you are an average employee, you can do anything for HR and Finance on the iPad.
Aneel Bhusri
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The stage, the screen, the novel, casual conversation, the street discussion, and too often the fireside intimacies are punctuated with blasphemy, to which may be added, as of the same nature, coarse, ribald jokes, foul stories, and low small talk. Some would have us believe that profanity is a sign of masculinity and emotion maturity.
Ezra Taft Benson
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Ease and luxury, such as our affluence brings today, do not make for maturity; hardship and struggle however do.
J. I. Packer