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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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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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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This is my trademark: I rip my T-shirt. I'm into the whole showing-a-bit-of-chest-hair thing.
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I've written a screenplay that is a series of monologues and songs; they form this sort of human tapestry across time and place. The form is strange, but I find it really fascinating.
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I did have an offer to direct one of the Alien movies but I wasn't too excited about all the effects work.
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Every star has that certain something that stands out and compels us to notice them.
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Virtue is like precious odours, most fragrant when it is crushed.
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The devil ain't got no music. All music is God's music.
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I saw the hideous phantasm of a man stretched out, and then, on the working of some powerful engine, show signs of life, and stir with an uneasy, half vital motion. Frightful must it be; for supremely frightful would be the effect of any human endeavour to mock the stupendous mechanism of the Creator of the world.
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God's wisdom is not, and never was, pledged to keep a fallen world happy, or to make ungodliness comfortable.
