Martin Luther Quotes
The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
Quotes to Explore
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I didn't grow up with musical influences in my family.
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You mustn't always believe what I say. Questions tempt you to tell lies, particularly when there is no answer.
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I did 'Are We There Yet?' because I wanted to do a movie for my fans' kids. Black kids don't really see movies on this budget for them, starring them. And there's so many white kids that love that movie.
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The American dream is more about opportunity than anything else.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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I hate the word sexy.
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You know, I love America. It's such a positive country.
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I exist as I am, that is enough.
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I love to have a band, but dancers are my priority because I really want a show, you know?
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Think like a man of action, and act like a man of thought.
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The person who, let us say, expects generosity from a bank, efficient flexibility from a government agency, open-mindedness from a religious institution will be disappointed. In each purview the notions represent immorality. The poor fool might as quickly discover love among the mantises.
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I saw what I had been fighting for: it was for me, a scared child...
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I've spent most of my life playing with Tom Petty, and he's a damn good songwriter.
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For writing, I get up early in the morning - 5 o'clock, 4:30. I'm a morning person... So I try to do it while people are asleep. The mornings are the nicest.
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We may not like our times or many aspects of the time we live in but that is not the fault of art as such.
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My book sales make 'real writers' possible.
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One of the reasons that our colleges have gotten so expensive is because of tenure.
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In the true sense one's native land, with its background of tradition, early impressions, reminiscences and other things dear to one, is not enough to make sensitive human beings feel at home.
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I think the mystery of art lies in this, that artists’ relationship is essentially with their work — not with power, not with profit, not with themselves, not even with their audience.
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I don't understand why the accent you speak in has to indicate what level of intellect you have.
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We approach Scripture with minds already formed by the mass of accepted opinions and viewpoints with which we have come into contact, in both the Church and the world....It is easy to be unaware that it has happened; it is hard even to begin to realize how profoundly tradition in this sense has moulded us.
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Artist and illustrator R. Crumb did a whole illustration of Genesis. And he didn't go away from the text; he was totally truthful. Reading through that, I was like, "Oh, wow, it's a comic-book version of the Bible." There's a lot of heavy-duty stuff that goes on that doesn't make it into Sunday school.
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The Bible is the book that makes fools of the wise of this world; it is only understood by the plain and simple hearted.
