J. I. Packer Quotes
God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
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I found my first dinosaur bone when I was 6, growing up in Montana. Ever since then I've been interested in dinosaurs.
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Knowledge is knowing that we cannot know.
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If you are hopeful, if you are optimistic, other people want to help you. And if you are down in the dumps, other people may still help you, but I've noticed that they're walking, not running, over to you.
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I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.
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If I categorized home runs that I've seen, without a doubt the monumental one is Henry's... but I've seen a lot of classic, great home runs. Gibson's was probably the most theatrical home run I've ever seen.
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A lot of the players that I play with who are Canadian, they call me Patty. Before then, I never heard it. I didn't mind Patty.
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But I prefer to go to comedies. Give me Julia Roberts smiling anyday.
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I don't ever want to get boxed in, playing the same characters, over and over again. That's why I prefer features over television.
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I love Queen Latifah! Queen Latifah is so beautiful! Every time you see her, if it's in a cosmetics ad, or on the red carpet, she's always flawless.
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Initially, it would bother me when filmmakers, script writers, dialogue writers and choreographers tried to recreate a bit of my dad though me.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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Chuck Cooper is a friend, and I adore him. He can do so many things.
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Many people think fairy tales and retellings of fairy tales are only for children, but I'm not the only writer to take an old tale and retell it for a sophisticated adult audience.
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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People who drive Jeeps are people who like to do outdoor activities.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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I moved on from dice baseball to 'MLB: The Show' on PlayStation.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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The lesson I have learnt is that when a family and a business function, they function together. You have to have a family that works and a business that works and the two will end up working well alongside.
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I think I had to see how bad it could really be to want to live again.
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I'm a very direct person just generally.
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Unless the trade deficit shrinks, the combination of the trade deficit and the interest and dividend payments to foreigners will grow ever more rapidly.
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That feeling is the same whether you're on either side of the hundredths. Obviously, it's great to win the world championship, but if you put down that kind of skiing, it's awesome either way.
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God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
