Havens Quotes - Page 8

• Every day, we try to pretend that we haven't perceived that moment, that it doesn't exist; that today is the same as yesterday and will be the same as tomorrow. But if people really pay attention to their everyday lives, they will discover that magic moment.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Life, Magic Moments

  Paulo Coelho (2009). “By the River Piedra I Sat Down and Wept: A Novel of Forgiveness”, p.7, Harper Collins

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• There are several books out on punk history, but I haven't read any of them. I was there.

  Greg Ginn

  Book, Punk

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• If you've never had a God-sized dream that scared you half to death, then you haven't really come to life. If you've never been overwhelmed by the impossibility of your plans, then your God is too small. If your vision isn't perplexingly impossible, then you need to expand the radiuses of your prayer circles.

  Mark Batterson

  Dream, Prayer, Circles

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• Lack of resources (payroll), time and competing priorities are why so many nonprofits haven't done well. It's that simple.

  Seth Godin

  Business, Simple, Priorities

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• The reason it seems that price is all your customers care about is that you haven't given them anything else to care about.

  Seth Godin

  Marketing, Care, Reason

  Seth Godin (2012). “Whatcha Gonna Do with That Duck?: And Other Provocations, 2006-2012”, p.218, Penguin

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• I've had lots of replies, we're into the double figures now. And the overall standard is very good. In fact I've been feeling a little guilty, because I haven't replied to anyone yet - it is something I will be doing.

  Peter Banks

  Feelings, Double Standard, Littles

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• People are concerned, here again, about life, and haven't given a whole lot of attention to how you make fathers responsible for the lives they bring into the world.

  Birch Bayh

  Father, People, Attention

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• I can't remember a single year of my life when I haven't made a piece of theatre.

  Simon McBurney

  Years, Theatre, Pieces

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• I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.

  Sebastian Barry

  Book, Blood, Play

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• I've learned one important lesson in my life, and I'm going to share it with you. Don't worry about bad things that haven't happened yet. It will save you a lot of anxiety.

  Adriana Trigiani

  Worry, Anxiety, Important

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• Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or their place, until you've exterminated their resident monsters.

  David Quammen

  People, Monsters, Lions

  David Quammen (2004). “Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind”, p.254, W. W. Norton & Company

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• The friend of time doesn't spend all day saying: 'I haven't got time.' He doesn't fight with time. He accepts it and cherishes it.

  Jean Vanier

  Fighting, Cherish, Accepting

  Jean Vanier, Ann Shearer (1989). “Community and Growth”, p.134, Paulist Press

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• There are too many books I haven’t read, too many places I haven’t seen, too many memories I haven’t kept long enough.

  Irwin Shaw

  Memories, Book, Long

  Herbert Kline, Irwin Shaw (1985). “New theatre and film, 1934 to 1937: an anthology”, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt P

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• Very few fighters get the consideration of racehorses, which are put out to pasture to grow old with dignity and comfort when they haven't got it anymore.

  Budd Schulberg

  Comfort, Dignity, Fighter

  "Barry Mcguigan: Brilliant Schulberg Budd was more than a contender", www.mirror.co.uk. August 8, 2009.

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• It's true I'm more widely recognised now and get invited to take part in all sorts of events and projects but as a person, I haven't changed.

  Roger Milla

  Events, Projects, Changed

  Interview with Paul Doyle, www.theguardian.com. June 2, 2006.

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• Politicians are like God. No one believes in them, they haven't done anything for ages, and they give jobs to their immediate family

  Andy Zaltzman

  Jobs, Believe, Giving

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• I haven't smoked marijuana since I was at NYU.

  Bill de Blasio

  Marijuana, Nyu

  "Mayor de Blasio and Chancellor Fariña to Lift School Cell Phone Ban". www1.nyc.gov. January 7, 2015.

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• Waiting for the Electricity is a wildly original and ambitious debut, a novel that tackles cultural clashes with satirical hilarity. I haven't read a first novel this promising since The Confederacy of Dunces.

  Jill Ciment

  Waiting, Ambitious, Hilarity

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• When I get depressed, or anything, I go 'think of all the music I haven't even heard yet!' So, it's the one thing. Imagine the world without music. Man, just hand me a gun, will you?

  Jim Jarmusch

  Gun, Men, Thinking

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• Girls interested in modeling need to realize that its hard work. You can go to a shoot in the morning and not even start shooting until 10pm - and still be there at 5am the next day. Then if you still haven’t got the shot, you’ll have to go back the next day and start again!

  Kate Moss

  Girl, Morning, Hard Work

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• If we say, 'I believe in Jesus,' but it doesn't affect the way we live, the answer is not that now we need to add hard work to our faith so much as that we haven't truly understood or believed in Jesus at all.

  Timothy Keller

  Jesus, Believe, Hard Work

  Timothy Keller (2009). “The Prodigal God: Recovering the heart of the Christian faith”, p.60, Hachette UK

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• On this special day of love, remember that your Father loves you more than you could ever imagine...no matter what you’ve done or haven’t done. No box of candy or flowers can compare to this kind of agape love!

  Joyce Meyer

  Love, God, Religious

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• The wall, safe haven for what is forbidden, gives a voice to all those who would, without it, be condemned to silence

  Brassai

  Wall, Safe Haven, Voice

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• If you looked at their cable bill, their telephone, their cell phone bill, other things they're spending money on, it may turn out that, it's just that they haven't prioritized health care.

  Barack Obama

  Phones, Cells, Care

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• I haven't travelled that much before so this is the first time I get to see the big cities of Europe. I've never even been to US.

  Ville Valo

  Europe, Cities, Firsts

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