J. I. Packer Quotes
The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living
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I don't wear a lot of color because I live in New York, and I'm sort of color-blind, so colors don't match to me a lot of the times, and it makes me anxious. So I'll always defer back to black.
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I feel like my story would've been different had I had a chance to play with Bron when I was 18. I've thought about it countless times.
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When I first came out with my fans and the wind hit me, I almost took off.
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I look a certain way. I have a very specific kind of look.
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A career in showbiz is like a distance run. You have to have patience and pace yourself.
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I enjoy privacy. I think it's nice to have a little mystery. I think because of technology a lot of the mystery is gone in life, and I'd like to preserve some of that.
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You don't boo at a Kemp rally. You boo at football games.
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Winning the peace is harder than winning the war.
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After the atomic bombs were dropped, the war ended and we went into Tokyo Bay with the rest of the fleet, the Missouri and the rest of them, while they signed the terms of surrender that ended the war.
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In the 9th grade I began my first wage work for the West Side Drug store delivering prescriptions and sundries on my bicycle to customers who called in orders.
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I used to be very photogenic. My brother took a lot of pictures of me in Dubai. I thought maybe I could be a movie star. There was a hurdle, though - I didn't know anything about films.
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I was born in India - but never really lived there.
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US presidents can make all the commitments and declarations they want until they are blue in the face, in the Muslim world they will always be perceived as partisan.
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Perhaps the truest axiom in baseball is that the toughest thing to do is repeat.
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I was inspired to write this book by those who are sceptical of the power of freedom to change the world.
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My father died when I was only five years old, and that was the moment when I learned a cruel lesson that tomorrow, in fact, might not be another day.
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All beautiful things in this world are because of women.
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There are only so many pitches in this old arm, and I don't believe in wasting them throwing to first base.
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It is a testament to our naïveté about culture that we think that we can change it by simply declaring new values. Such declarations usually produce only cynicism.
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My whole journey and career has been really interesting, but the one element it never really had was any sense of great momentum.
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It's 5 P.M. at the office. Working fast, you've finished your tasks for the day and want to go home. But none of your colleagues have left yet, so you stay another hour or two, surfing the Web and reading your e-mails again, so you don't come off as a slacker. It's an unfortunate reality that efficiency often goes unrewarded in the workplace.
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"Triennale in the City" is a scheme that is of priority for the sponsoring local government. For many local governments, revitalization is an important mission for the local community, and, therefore, the attitude to achieve this mission through the cultural and/or artistic activities should not be denied.
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The battle against pride in the heart is lifelong, so humility should become an ever more deeply seated attitude of living
