E. Stanley Jones Quotes
Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
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One of the achievements of the reform movement is that people realize that they can be democrats and remain faithful Muslims. Democracy is now an established idea.
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I just get really defensive as soon as anyone comes near my personal life. I made a decision early on that it's strictly off-limits. No exceptions.
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My mother did all she could to control me, but at age 14 she sent me to a military school.
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People are told their rights when they're arrested. Consumers getting collection letters are entitled to the same courtesy.
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We don't need bigger government. We need to shrink the size of government.
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I hope I can compete in one or two Olympics in my career. Of course I would like to win a medal, but just being there would be awesome.
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I know what it's like not to have food in the fridge or money to buy more.
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I'm the girl that's on the beach with a hat on, under an umbrella. Like, very shaded. But my weird thing is, I only tan my legs. My whole body's covered in the shade, and I tan my legs.
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The conception that, instead of this, contemporary society is at or near a turning point is very prominent in the views of a school of social scientists who, though they are still comparatively few, are getting more and more of a hearing.
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If the blood humor is too strong and robust, calm it with balance and harmony.
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My dad is truly the person who always made me believe in myself, to appreciate that I was smart.
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I hope that anyone I worked with wouldn't exploit our relationship.
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I've always maintained - a captain is only as good as his team. It is not about my leadership, it is not about me.
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The moral is that a career can be gone in an instant. And all you have in this world are the people you love.
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When someone says something that really hurts me, I have to retweet it to let it go.
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That's what I was trying to say when we were talking about sound. I think that every person, whether they play music or don't play music, has a sound - their own sound, that thing that you're talking about.
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What the eyes perceive in herbs or stones or trees is not yet a remedy; the eyes see only the dross.
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What happens when you take a lion out of the safari and try to take him to your place of residence and make him a house pet? It ain't going to happen. That's the type of person that I am. I'm that lion.
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'Freaky Ali' is not a heavy film. It's a simple but inspiring film. It will inspire those who want to go from zero to hundred. People who have made an effort to achieve success from nothing will be able to connect to the character.
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Sometimes I can't get out of the character because the story is very intense.
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I do write by hand. I just think - I don't know, it's a physical thing for me. It's a bodily thing. It literally has to earn its way through my hand.
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Yes, we didn't do this -- we didn't produce these videotapes on time. My letter to Sen. Thompson made clear we should have found them. But the one thing that is absolutely clear is that the only pattern here is not one of incompetence -- and we don't make an incompetence defense -- the pattern here is one of an ongoing intensive day-to-day effort to try to meet the committee's needs and that is the only pattern a fair reader can see.
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I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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Whatever our creed, we stand with admiration before the sublime character of Jesus.
