Eugene H. Peterson Quotes

The Spirit works through community. Somebody will have a stupid, screwy idea. That's okay. The point of having creeds and confessions and traditions is to keep us in touch with the obvious errors.

Eugene H. Peterson

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I always wanted to be a filmmaker, but I started acting when I was 9 years old. I looked a certain part that I wasn't, really. I played, you know, a high school jock with a lot of attitude or a spoiled rich kid, and I was neither of those things. I was from a very working-class family in Van Nuys.

Steve Antin

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In 'The Sopranos,' these guys know their best years are behind them. They have nostalgia for their old traditions. In their minds, they're looking for a time when loyalty mattered, community mattered. E Street is about community, too. People are looking for something real.

Steven Van Zandt

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The difference between science and the fuzzy subjects is that science requires reasoning while those other subjects merely require scholarship.

Robert A. Heinlein

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In some sense, Comedy Central has made their audience into comedy connoisseurs.

Mike Birbiglia

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I hear that from so many different governments, people coming to me and saying, 'You should be careful'. But I don't want to go around with bodyguards.

Mohamed ElBaradei

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A man's most open actions have a secret side to them.

Joseph Conrad

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I'm still asked a great deal about 'The Wicker Man' because it's become one of the great cult movies of all time. That's the story of my career, really, making cult movies. And I've always said it's the best film I've ever made.

Christopher Lee

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My father has always been such a doer.

Chelsea Clinton

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The effect of robotization would be profoundly different if, say, truckers possessed their own autonomous vehicles rather than a corporation controlling them all.

Alissa Quart

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I was dissatisfied with the status quo back in the 80's, particularly how the West was represented in federation. I wanted to try to change it.

Preston Manning

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Before journalism, I had worked doing medical aid work in conflict zones. Then, as a journalist, I had written about hospitals in war zones.

Sheri Fink

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A face in the picture would bother me, so I'd rub it out with the turpentine and do it over.

Norman Rockwell

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