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 don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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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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Everything I do now is a first.
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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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Mexican music runs through my veins. I loved it. Growing up, my father didn't allow us to listen to English music at home. That's all I heard. I had no choice.
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Rapists who might've been convicted were free to assault other women.
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I am after ME his response on the question what he was after, in his sober painting in 1963 'Sun in an empty room'.
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My upbringing was completely liberal from the start. In fact, I didn't even have a Muslim identity.
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There is a painful joke that Europeans often tell of their Gallic neighbors: God created France, the most beautiful country in the world with so much good in it, and ended up feeling guilty about it. He had to do something to make it fair. And so, he created the French people.
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God uses chronic pain and weakness, along with other afflictions, as his chisel for sculpting our lives.