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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My life has never been wonderful. Maybe when I was a child, but not after age 15.
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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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Only when the sense of the pain of others begins does man begin.
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The only safe ship in a storm is leadership.
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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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Children, even infants, are capable of sympathy. But only after adolescence are we capable of compassion.
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You know so little of war. Battles may be fought from the outside in, but wars are won from the inside out.
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I work very hard every day not to have a lot of expectations. You just let go of the results, because a book will be on bookshelves and in libraries long after we're gone, and, in some ways, whatever happens is none of our business.
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I was a dancer from a young age. My parents were dancers; we were taken to a lot of ballet as children. It occurred to me that what I liked more than dancing the steps was acting the story of whatever particular performance I was taking part in.
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It never came into question, taking the name away or changing it. Panic! has always symbolised some form of excitement that I couldn't get elsewhere.
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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.
