J. I. Packer Quotes
God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.
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I don't want to come off like the jealous brother who wasn't getting the attention, but it was like no one was really into me anyway. I wasn't really a priority.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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I don't like to be out of my comfort zone, which is about a half an inch wide.
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It's not a lack of confidence, because I can't argue with the fact that I've taken some good pictures. But it's just a raw fear that you've taken the last one.
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Don't sell credits; don't sell walk-on roles... If people want to back you, they'll back you. But if you have to entice people will walk-on roles and crazy credits, you're undermining yourself.
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Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.
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I love watching action. I remember watching Angelina Jolie in 'Tomb Raider,' and I was like 'Wow, it's so cool when a girl can go around and kick butt.'
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Sometimes, whether you like it or not, people elevate you. It's real easy to fall.
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In reality, serial killers are of average intelligence.
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My job as a leader is to make sure everybody in the company has great opportunities, and that they feel they're having a meaningful impact and are contributing to the good of society. As a world, we're doing a better job of that. My goal is for Google to lead, not follow that.
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The fixed stars signify the angel in man. That is why man orients himself by them; and that is why women have no appreciation for the starry sky; because they have no sense of the angel in man.
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It's stupid to say that I don't like being in the public eye, but I don't like doing stuff that's not needed.
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Cultures are never merely intellectual constructs. They take form through the collective intelligence and memory, through a commonly held psychology and emotions, through spiritual and artistic communion.
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I would go home and be this insular girl who listened to music and brooded in her bedroom.
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Nobody has it all, but for me to even come close is amazing.
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I'm the nicest, most loyal person in the world when it comes to my friends.
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The Monsters & Strangerz, I love them so much.
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A Christianity that is in conflict with the Scriptures isn't Christianity at all.
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There's such a stereotype about men and women. Obviously, people think men are faster and stronger and all these other things, and I don't want people to get sucked into that anymore. I want them to realize that the women are out here and doing just as awesome things. They can be just as great, too.
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I first read Harper Lee's 'To Kill a Mockingbird' as a teen in school, like you did. I read the book alone, eating lunch at my locker, neatly scored oranges my mother divided into five lines with a circle at the top, so my fingers could dig more easily into the orange skin. To this day, the smell of oranges reminds me of 'Mockingbird.'
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I have always believed that 98% of a student's progress is due to his own efforts, and 2% to his teacher.
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I initially wanted to be a teacher, and then I was going to become an engineer and build bridges and highways, but pretty soon I went into the business world. I never did get to be a teacher except in a different way.
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If our lives are truly plans of God, someone had better call a meeting soon to remind us, once more, what great miracles we really are.
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God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.
