Billy Sunday Quotes
I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
Quotes to Explore
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I enjoy pushing my characters to the limit. No matter how far out there I go, I look for things that make the characters human.
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I have an iPod, but I put my music in it from my CDs, and then I have that CD in my library.
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Everybody with a gun has a checkpoint in Lebanon. And in Lebanon, you'd be crazy not to have a gun. Though, I assure you, all the crazy people have guns, too.
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I've always had that maternal thing: that connection with street kids and people who are misfits.
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I think the most expensive thing I've bought thus far is my Rolex.
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Religion can emerge in all forms of feeling: here wild anger, there the sweetest pain; here consuming hatred, there the childlike smile of serene humility.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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The search for the truth is not for the faint hearted.
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Big-government proponents embrace both the power of the federal government and the idea that millions of Americans ought to be dependent on its largesse. It's time to return to our Founders' love for small government. More is not always better.
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Tax cuts are like sex: When they are good, they are very, very good. And when they are bad, they are still pretty good.
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Americans are good at pursuing happiness. And the Americans who pursue happiness most diligently show that we're also good at running it down and killing it.
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All the animals I've painted always have a relationship with man. I have been told that part of the knowledge of the human anatomy comes from animals.
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For years I've wanted to write about the Australian countryside, but, like most Australians, I've only got a tourist's knowledge of it. I thought that if I disobeyed that basic rule of writing - write about what you know - I'd write a thin and inauthentic book.
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Any one who wants to live in peace and freedom will be to live by toil, demonstration of high levels of discipline and tolerance for one another.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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The purpose of art is washing the dust of daily life off our souls.
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If there is something that strikes me as interesting or beautiful or something I could learn from, and I don't write it down, then I could be at lunch with you, and it's like there's a pile of laundry in my brain that I haven't put away, and I struggle to really listen, so that's always been important to me.
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No one ever chats me up; I think they all think I'm taken. Either that or no one fancies me.
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If there is anyone who owes everything to Bach, it is certainly God.
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I believe in 'intelligence,' and I believe also that there are inherited differences in intellectual ability, but I do not believe that intelligence is a simple scalar endowment that can be quanitified by attaching a single figure to it-an I.Q. or the like.
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Convince me, but without convictions. Convictions no longer convince me.
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I don't think it should be a surprise when we're talking about energy and trying to have more home-grown energy, be less reliant on foreign oil when you look at our health care that we're trying to get more affordable health care, that these are going to create major debates in this country and be somewhat polarizing.
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You have to know me first to think I'm pretty.
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I believe that a long step toward public morality will have been taken when sins are called by their right names.
