J. C. Ryle Quotes
We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes.
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I want people to get over the stigma about hemp. These seeds can't make you high, but they will make you feel good.
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My first 'Tonight Show' was just one of those things - I mean this seriously - a cosmic, meant-to-be coming together of circumstance. You walk out there to do your first 'Tonight Show': Is the audience going to be hot? Are you going to be on fire? It's like an athlete: Are you going to have your moves at a peak?
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A healthy economics has got to have both conceptual, theoretical research and applied, empirical research.
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The loss of life will be irreplaceable.
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I drive a car, like an adult. Not brilliantly. I'm not great.
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Cartooning was a good fit for me. And yet now, years later, I almost never think about it.
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The same parts of my brain get as excited as when I study bio or read a novel and write a paper on it.
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We need to ask who is the enemy, and the enemies are terrorists.
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The sky in Texas is the most amazing sky in the whole country, I think, like you can see more sky in Texas than you can see anywhere else in the world.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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To be honest, if it wasn't for my daughter, I don't think I would have gotten out of the situation that I was in before 'Idol' because I am a domestic violence survivor.
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'Ender's Game' has fabulous opportunities for spectacle, where appropriate, but there's also a tremendous central character. It's a balance.
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The basic right to quality and affordable health care is under assault by Donald Trump and Republicans in Washington.
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Telly never has any smart, amusing intellectuals living on a council estate.
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'Sesame Street's' genius lies in finding gentle ways to talk about hard things - death, divorce, danger - in terms that children understand and accept.
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The nearest approach I have ever seen to the symmetry of ancient sculpture was among the Arab tribes of Ethiopia. Our Saxon race can supply the athlete, but not the Apollo.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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After the Soviet Union collapsed, people thought I wasn't funny anymore.
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Ann Demeulemeester is an adult brand now, with its own identity and legacy that is able to continue growing without me.
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Journalism was looked upon as a more noble thing than it is now. I don't know if it carries the same cachet that it did then.
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Philosophers make imaginary laws for imaginary commonwealths, and their discourses are as the stars, which give little light because they are so high.
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What then is time? If no one asks me, I know what it is. If I wish to explain it to him who asks, I do not know.
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When any of us thinks of ourselves as a role model - whether that's as a parent being observed by their kids or a leader under the microscope of their followers - it creates a natural stepping up of how we carry ourselves and what we expect from ourselves.
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We must give up the vain idea of trying to please everybody. That is impossible, and the attempt is a mere waste of time. We must be content to walk in Christ's steps, and let the world say what it likes.
