E. Stanley Jones Quotes
The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.
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Music can bring about different vibes on the field, off the field, urban life, going to church, leaving church. Everything the world may bring, there's a song for it to put you in the right frame of mind.
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One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.
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Of course, I have given my engineers some headaches over the years, but they go with me. I have always wanted my buildings to be as light as possible, to touch the ground gently, to swoop and soar, and to surprise.
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Honestly, since the Diane Sawyer piece, every day it's like, it's exciting to go to the mailbox... Because I get letters every day from all of these people from all over the world.
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My readers at that time were still men of letters; but there had to be other people waiting to read my poems.
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The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.
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It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.
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The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.
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I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.
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When I began to think about the head of the family, the storyteller, the rise of television which became the new storyteller, the break-up of the American family as an idea and then Avalon came.
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Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.
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I remember in high school trying to get home from water-polo practice in time so I could see Happy Days on television when it first came on, because I was so blown away by it. It was just such a cool thing.
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Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Anything that looks good makes you feel better.
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With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.
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There's a long life ahead of you and it's going to be beautiful, as long as you keep loving and hugging each other.
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The French view is really one of balance, I think... What French women would tell me over and over is, it's very important that no part of your life - not being a mom, not being a worker, not being a wife - overwhelms the other part.
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The silence of a wise man is always meaningful.
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A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.
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My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.
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Vast wings above the lambent waters broodOf sullen day.
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The purpose of religion is not so much to get us into heaven, or to keep us out of hell, but to put a little bit of heaven into us, and take the hell out of us. This has always been the greatest responsibility of religion.
