E. Stanley Jones Quotes
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I'm not shy or reclusive. I just spend my time with people rather than journalists.
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For decades, scholars have studied the ways in which implicit biases affect how we perceive other people in this multiethnic society of ours. The data consistently shows that about 90 percent of us possess some implicit prejudices - and, unsurprisingly, people typically favor their own group.
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I've been in more laps than a napkin.
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We have established a new basis in our country in which economic liberalization would continue to flourish alongside democratic forces and deregulated power structure.
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Once every five hundred years or so, a summary statement about poetry comes along that we can't imagine ourselves living without.
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The great mass of women throughout history have been confined to the cultural level of animal life in providing the male with sexual outlet and exercising the animal functions of reproduction and care of the young.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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My boys asked me to write beautiful letters for their ex-girls so they could get them back. I thought, 'I should be writing songs for myself.'
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To me, human existence exists on a multiple level, not just on a two-dimensional level, not just having to be identified with what you do and what you say.
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I'd probably put myself in the top 1% in knowledge of blight in the city of Detroit.
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If I could travel back in time, I'd bring back the entire Wu-Tang Clan.
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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The main thing in life is not to be afraid of being human.
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I like the idea of sending my Aquazurra girls out with a lucky charm under their feet.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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You never argued with my mother. You couldn't win.
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The idea of Jonathan Rhys Meyers as Dracula, all I could think of was, why haven't they done this with him before? It's such a genius idea. 'Dracula' has always been done as film, so it's been an hour and 40 minutes. What we're done is 10 hours of 'Dracula,' so you have a lot of freedom with all the different mythologies and nuances.
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If you really do want to be an actor who can satisfy himself and his audience, you need to be vulnerable. You must reach the emotional and intellectual level of ability where you can go out stark naked, emotionally, in front of an audience.
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It is important for us to be able to meet and greet the people that we serve. And if we start having police presence everywhere we go, it's going to create a chilling effect on discourse, and it creates an incredible assault on the democratic process.
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You can fool people. You can fool anybody anytime of the day, but you can't fool yourself. At night, when you go home, you've got to be straight up with you.
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I think there is a good deal of promise in those discussions as well. I think there is a range of matters that might be discussed between NATO and Russia that can provide a mechanism for talking through these issues, a way to give reassurance on these issues.
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One of the functions of government is to act as a safeguard not just of property but of our liberties.
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If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
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Being born in a Christian home does not make you a Christian.
