Candi Staton (Canzetta Maria "Candi" Staton) Quotes
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And there is something profoundly humbling about knowing God. I’m not talking about the trinket God or the genie-in-a-lamp God. I mean the God who invented the tree in my front yard, the beauty of my sweetheart, the taste of a blueberry, the violence of a river at flood. There are a lot of religious trends that would have us controlling God, telling us that if we do this that and the other, God will jump through our hoops like a monkey. But this other God, this real God, is awesome and strong, all-encompassing and passionate, and for reasons I will never understand, he wants to father us.
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What if - what if Life itself were the sweetheart?
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Sweetheart, do not love too long: I loved long and long, And grew to be out of fashion Like an old song.
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come on sweetheart let's adore one another before there is no more of you and me
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Sometimes I have the strangest feeling about you. Especially when you are near me as you are now. It feels as though I had a string tied here under my left rib where my heart is, tightly knotted to you in a similar fashion. And when you go to Ireland, with all that distance between us, I am afraid that this cord will be snapped, and I shall bleed inwardly.
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What do you think, would not one tiny crime be wiped out by thousands of good deeds?
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We need to stay in Iraq until the job is done. The President understands this and I'm glad that he is getting more countries to participate. We must change the chant of millions of young Muslims from 'Jihad Against the World' to 'Freedom and Democracy.'
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The people that are closest to your heart are always the people who were with you when you had nothing.
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You can't walk two steps without seeing a pregnant teen.
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The things that keep me awake at night are things like textures and instrumentation and plotting out what things are going to do and what the sounds are that I'm trying to capture.
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People like to see human error when it’s honest. When people see you swing and miss, they start to root for you.
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Language is called the garment of thought: however, it should rather be, language is the flesh-garment, the body, of thought.
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“I was tired of talking to you twenty minutes after I met you ten years ago.”
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Sometimes something is so frightening I must look at it this closely or dismiss it altogether. Sometimes it's so stunningly beautiful I feel completely left out. With either extreme, photographing makes me have to deal with it.
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Funny, I'd forgotten that what comes to you when you take a psychedelic is not always a revelation of something new and startling; you're more liable to find yourself reminded of simple things you know and forgot you knew - seeing them freshly - old, basic truths that long ago became cliches, so you stopped paying attention to them.
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You don't want atheism shoved down your throat? OK. We will stock knocking on doors spreading our 'Truth,' and having tax-exempt organizations dedicated to atheism that have influential political action committees. We will also stop printing 'In atheism we trust' on all US currency and saying, 'One nation, under atheism" in the pledge of allegiance. We will also stop insisting that everyone who disagrees with us will be sentence to eternal damnation... Wait...
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Such sober certainty of waking bliss.
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In the Christianity of Christendom the Cross has become something like the child’s hobby-horse and trumpet.
