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George Whitefield Quotes

It is a poor sermon that gives no offense; that neither makes the hearer displeased with himself nor with the preacher.

George Whitefield

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: english
Birth: December 16, 1714 - September 30, 1770

Topics

Poor Offense Himself Preacher Sermon

The poverty of our century is unlike that of any other. It is not, as poverty was before, the result of natural scarcity, but of a set of priorities imposed upon the rest of the world by the rich.

World Rest Rich Priorities Result

To some degree, we're all thinking about the same things. It's the zeitgeist. The trick, in a way, as a writer, is to hope that your interests in some sense link up with the culture around you.

Hope Culture Thinking You Way Same

My old songs used to take place in Gothenburg; then, when I lived in Melbourne, the songs just naturally took place more in Melbourne.

Place More Old Melbourne Lived Take

Israel is a mishmash of other cultures. It's like New Orleans; it's a meltdown of other cultures.

New Cultures New Orleans Israel Like

I used to take it personally when a casting director didn't like me or I didn't get picked for something. Now I realize you can't do that. It'll mess with your self-esteem. Don't take rejection overly personally. If that doesn't work out, there's something else waiting for you.

Sierra McCormick

Work Waiting Me Rejection You Now

If you watch the history of baseball, teams come back, and sometimes they could have come back, but they give in or give up.

History Baseball You Back Sometimes

Mutual funds give people the sense that they're investing with the big boys and that they're really not at a disadvantage entering the stock market.

People Stock Market Investing Big

Charter hired me - which, to be honest, took some humility on its part, since I have helped lead public campaigns against cable companies like Charter - to advise it in crafting its commitment to network neutrality.

Commitment Humility Me Lead Against

While the surfeit of cheap calories that the U.S. food system has produced since the late 1970s may have taken food prices off the political agenda, this has come at a steep cost to public health.

Health Food Political Late Cheap

I'm just a person. I'm not anything!

Person Anything Just

A lot of artists get famous overseas first. I don't know what it is here. I have a large underground following in the U.S., but I don't get the airplay as much as I do in, say, Australia. Over there, they can play whatever they like, it seems, but not so much here.

Famous Play Know Say Australia Over

Actors have an innate sense of self and humanity, the good ones do, and of being generous of heart and generous of spirit.

Good Heart Self Humanity Spirit

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