Vance Havner Quotes
The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.
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I had to endure the worst time of all in terms of racial discrimination in Hollywood when I first started out. It was inconcievable to American directors and producers that a Mexican woman could have a lead role.
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I think of New Yorkers as not taking the time to talk to someone they don't know.
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Life must continue, even with the security situation so bad, because I have ambitions. I love this sport too much.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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It's very important to give back to the community and do anything you can.
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I travel a lot, and that makes it harder to date, but it also opens up opportunities for me to meet people where I wouldn't normally meet them.
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I've never chased the dollar, I've always chased the reader's heart. I love having more readers. The more people who read it, the more thrilled I am.
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If I can just be thought of as Omari Hardwick who had a really, really solid career, and whose work is appreciated in its own right, I think that would be a great legacy to leave behind.
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I never liked apples. In fact, when I was a little girl, my mom wanted to give me apples in my lunch box and I would ask for green peppers. So bizarre... It's funny - I don't have an apple a day, but I can say that I have a few a week.
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We see it in the body, that if you just give the body enough rest and comfort, it has remarkable self-healing capacities. Well, so does the spirit.
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Do I favor the death penalty? Theoretically, I do, but when you realize that there's a 4 percent error rate, you end up putting guilty people to death.
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Mark Ruffalo is just an amazing guy and an amazing director.
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If you believe in God, He will open the windows of heaven and pour blessings upon you.
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If I am going to trash others for their dumb predictions, I must at least hold myself to the same sort of accountability.
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Basically, I get paid to be crazy. I get paid to believe I'm someone else, live in a completely false reality, and believe it's real. And that's a little scary. And I do it to the best of my ability. But it's kind of like swimming out to sea. You have to leave enough energy to swim back, and sometimes you get scared you swam too far.
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In real life, I'm pretty much an eternal optimist.
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Culturally, the arts of Puerto Rico is really unmatched by any other island.
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The purpose of life is to be defeated by greater and greater things.
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When I grew up in West Baltimore, anything associated - and I'm talking about my childhood - with white people 99 percent of the time was something malevolent, like it was an explanatory force for something bad.
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Just try to add more things to my game each year.
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Apart from direct mistakes, there is nothing more ruinous than routine play, the aim of which is mechanical development.
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When girls bully, it's very subtle, and you can't define it. At least with boys, the bullying is usually explicit, and you can deal with it. It's psychological with girls.
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It's getting harder just to feel alive.
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The devil will let a preacher prepare a sermon if it will keep him from preparing himself.