Bishop Briggs (Sarah Grace McLaughlin) Quotes
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Now that mobile phones and the internet have altered the epistemic selective landscape in a revolutionary way, every religious organisation must scramble to evolve defences or become extinct.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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Nothing is less suspenseful than a threat that threatens the maker of the threat at least as much as the subject of the threat. Congress hasn't learned this yet, but America has learned it over and over.
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To light a candle is to cast a shadow.
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I never identified with anybody. I have always been very sensitive about my color, because everybody called me 'yellow gal.' I was caught in between both sides - nobody wanted me. I love that my audience is there, but I always feel as though I have to fend for myself.
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Most people want security in this world, not liberty.
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If there were no government-guaranteed student loans, college tuition would be much lower.
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The day I make movies that Rupert Murdoch likes and admires is the day I'll throw in the towel, because he's got no taste.
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A woman should say: 'Have I made him happy? Is he satisfied? Does he love me more than he loved me before? Is he likely to go to bed with another woman?' If he does, then it's the wife's fault because she is not trying to make him happy.
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Poetry is almost like my foundation for everything. I almost feel I am a better actor and writer because of it.
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I have to believe there's redemption in the darkest of circumstances; otherwise it's too bleak for me.
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In my early professional years I was asking the question: How can I treat, or cure, or change this person? Now I would phrase the question in this way: How can I provide a relationship which this person may use for his own personal growth?
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From medieval tapestries, we know that slingers were capable of hitting birds in flight. They were incredibly accurate.
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I love family films. Of course, as a mother who has to watch so many movies, you really appreciate it when somebody makes a film that is for everybody - family entertainment that's really for the family, where everyone has a good time.
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I expected it to be overwhelming and all-encompassing, but having a kid brings you into the world in a whole different way.
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In all my life, I have never been free. I have never been able to do anything with freedom, except in the field of my writing.
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I'm 33 years old now. I really want that ring. I got a taste of it here.
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We want people to have the right to express their concerns and frustration and protest in a peaceful manner.
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Attacks on Internet sites and infrastructure, and the compromise of secure information, pose a particularly tricky problem because it is usually impossible to trace an attack back to its instigator.
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The Iranian regime supports violent extremists and challenges us across the region. It pursues a nuclear capability that could spark a dangerous arms race and raise the prospect of a transfer of nuclear know-how to terrorists. Its president denies the Holocaust and threatens to wipe Israel off the map. The danger from Iran is grave, it is real.
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The happiest she'd ever been was with him, and the saddest. Was that the true test of love?
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Stuff that I write isn't as similar to the stuff that I'm in, but I don't really care. I just do comedy.
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To quit smoking, you must first want to quit, but then you must also do the quitting.
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When I was very little, I had an Essex accent.
