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.

E. Stanley Jones

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• The camera fails to capture the 'business' in show business! We typically will give 10 percent of our salary to the agent, 10 percent to the manager, and 5 percent to the lawyer, plus the publicist gets a flat fee, which needs to be budgeted for.

  

  Danica McKellar
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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.

  

  Cam Newton
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• One of the prices that we pay for integration was the disintegration of the black community.

  

  Ed Smith
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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.

  

  Oscar Niemeyer
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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.

  

  Caitlyn Jenner
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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.

  

  Salvatore Quasimodo
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• The film business was a great lesson in business combat and what it takes to survive.

  

  Larry Wilcox
  • Great
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• It's very difficult to raise money, especially in the United States, for independent movies.

  

  Gael Garcia Bernal
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  • Independent
  • Movies

• The older you get, the more comfortable you become with yourself, and you accept what you have physically.

  

  Victoria Beckham Spice Girls
  • You
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• I just come from a school where you have to win something to be accepted.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • School
  • You
  • Win

• 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.

  

  Barry Levinson
  • Up
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• Parents often talk about the younger generation as if they didn't have anything to do with it.

  

  Haim Ginott
  • Parents
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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.

  

  Ted McGinley
  • Time
  • Trying
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• Historically, the notes of scale systems anywhere have been based on these pure harmonics.

  

  Lara St. John
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• Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.

  

  Queen Christina
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• Anything that looks good makes you feel better.

  

  Young Jeezy
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  • Feel
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• I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.

  

  S. E. Hinton
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• With Shakespeare, there's no subtext; you're speaking exactly what you're thinking constantly.

  

  Oscar Isaac
  • Thinking
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• The scholar, the teacher, the intellectual, have a higher duty than any of the others, for society has trained you to think as well as do.

  

  John F. Kennedy
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• The most dangerous thing you can do in life is play it safe.

  

  Casey Neistat
  • Life
  • Play
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• This one man dynasty has only just begun.

  

  Randy Orton
  • Man
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• You must remind yourself at all times that the golf ball is nothing. It's an object. It's something to be swatted and sometimes lost and not even looked for.

  

  Dan Jenkins
  • Lost
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  • Golf

• I'm never going to look like a Nordic model, so I play with what I've got. Instead of going gray, I dye my hair bright colors; I have bad vision, so I wear sparkly glasses. I embrace that I look like a crazy lady.

  

  Jenji Kohan
  • Bad
  • Crazy
  • Hair

• 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.

  

  E. Stanley Jones
  • Science
  • Responsibility
  • Purpose