John Niven Quotes

I grew up in a council house in a poor Scottish town. I came of age during the recession of the mid-1980s when unemployment in my area reached 40 per cent.

John Niven

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New-Year's Day arriving, and the ministers, to whom I wrote, remaining silent, I consider their silence as evidence, that they cannot prove what I said not to be from the Lord, and have therefore published as I was directed.

Joanna Southcott

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We know in our society, women are valued for their sexual desirability and not necessarily for what they have to say.

Jessica Chastain

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Land and sea, weakness and decline are great separators, but death is the great divorcer for ever.

John Keats

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Love is whatever you can still betray. Betrayal can only happen if you love.

John le Carre

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God tests His people through hardship.

John Piper

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All I can do is today and tomorrow and have some idea of what we're doing next week. That's all I can worry about.

Stephen Colbert

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If you love helping people, and you love trying to bring comfort and peace to their life at a very, very difficult time, you're going to have to look pretty hard to find a profession that gives you more opportunities than the funeral business.

Steve Southerland

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When you go through a moment, and you are down and losing your head, it gives you a lot of experience.

Riyad Mahrez

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I love doing a lot of cardio. It's not so much for the way I look. It's for how I perform. If I get in the ring with a 215-pounder, I wanna be able to keep up with him agility-wise. I take that back to my football days of being a large athlete that could move.

Roman Reigns

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I always say if you put someone from a small town into a big city for ten years, then when they go back, they'll act differently. Are they the same person? Sure, but do they act different? Yeah.

Mike Colter

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I come to work on time. I focus on my job. I bust my scenes out and everything else kind of happens from there.

Michael K. Williams

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My first paid acting job was a movie called Fandango. It also starred Kevin Costner.

Judd Nelson

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