J. C. Ryle Quotes
Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
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Speakers who talk about what life has taught them never fail to keep the attention of their listeners.
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I've made plenty of violent games in my life. I play violent games. They don't affect people in the way that a lot of people think they do. They just don't. It's demonstrably true that they don't, and anybody who thinks they do is just not thinking.
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My hunger is always there.
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I would love to have been around in the Keystone Studios days.
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We're not a nation divided: we're a nation broken, and anything broken can be fixed.
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'Dangerous' is an album that I was very dedicated to. I wanted every song to be a hit.
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In the '80s the band was 24/7. You were only as good as what you were producing at any given moment. Now my family is more important. I also think having the shock of your mum and dad dying humbles you slightly.
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I'm a big foodie and would love to indulge in such things. I've been to many restaurants in the city, and although I can't eat often, I know what's available where.
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I'm the most Colombian of the Colombians, even though I've lived 47 years outside of Colombia. I've lived 13 years in New York, and I never did a painting about New York. I've lived in France more than 30 years, and I've never painted Paris.
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I will never support any tax increase on middle-income earners, ever... If you're not going to eliminate loopholes and exemptions, then I wouldn't support lowering rates.
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Advertising is the price companies pay for being unoriginal.
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Like parents, cooks shouldn't have favourites, but some recipes inevitably shine more than others.
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If you play a real character who's famous and still alive, it makes things easier if you have the luck to have a good relationship with them.
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I'm a sponge for historical images of black people and black history on film.
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There's definitely something transformative about clothes.
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Do not get elated at any victory, for all such victory is subject to the will of God.
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In all matters of opinion, our adversaries are insane.
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The tradition of classical music and the opera is such that it used to be the place where social intercourse could take place between all parts of society: politicians, industrialists, artists, citizens, etc. That tradition, I think, still exists, but it's much, much more diluted.
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We're all happier when we know less, because the details are frightening and haven't really improved much. The more you pay attention, the more horrifying the world is.
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A.J. Liebling, one of my heroes, used to say that he could write better than anyone who wrote faster, and faster than anyone who could write better. I'm one nine-hundredth as good as Liebling, but that principle may slightly apply.
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Nature's tears are reason's merriment.
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My ultimate fantasy is to entice a man to my bedroom, put a gun to his head and say, 'Make babies or die'.
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I would absolutely love to do something with Viola Davis or Meryl Streep. I just think both of those women fall so deep into their characters that you are no longer looking at the actresses, you are looking at the characters they embraced.
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Just as the first sign of life in an infant when born into the world is the act of breathing, so the first act of men and women when they are born again is praying.
