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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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.
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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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I was on 'SVU' for 11 years. I developed a muscle in my brain that could memorize things much more easily than people who don't do it every day. I got used to the language, and some of it got to be repetitive language, so you build your vocabulary.
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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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I like having a private name and a public name. It helps keep things straight.
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The mere fact of having a Security Council meeting at ministerial level will send out a very sharp message indeed to the Syrians.
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If we believe in Jesus, it is not what we gain but what He pours through us that really counts. God’s purpose is not simply to make us beautiful, plump grapes, but to make us grapes so that He may squeeze the sweetness out of us.
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In America our public schools are intended to be religiously neutral. Our teachers and schools are neither to endorse nor to inhibit religion. I believe this is a very good thing.
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I think "post-racial" is a dangerous trap. You can fall into complacency and give your complicity a much more dangerous character.
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Remember that an answer to a difficulty resides at a higher level than our usual thinking, so seek this loftier level.
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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.
