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I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

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• My favorite thing to do is to wind those guys up by hitting on their girlfriends. I say, 'I think your girlfriend's gorgeous, but it's all right, I'm gay.' They get very nervous after a few minutes!

  

  Adam Garcia
  • Up
  • Think
  • Gay

• I'm a big advocate of revisions, of living with something for a month and then realizing what needs changing, what was lazy, what could be better.

  

  K. Flay
  • Better
  • Lazy
  • Month

• My songs have a lot going on in them -they're packed with sounds. When I have only three or four minutes to capture something, I guess I can't stand the idea of any bar going unloved.

  

  Imogen Heap
  • Idea
  • Stand
  • Three

• Sex is the ersatz or substitute religion of the 20th Century.

  

  Malcolm Muggeridge
  • Religion
  • Sex
  • 20th Century

• Life wasn't about freeing up human souls. It was about creating obedient slaves in the hierarchical construction of the society - with God at the top, then the king and then the father.

  

  Ingmar Bergman
  • Life
  • Up
  • God

• Teach us to give and not to count the cost.

  

  Saint Ignatius
  • Religion
  • Teach
  • Cost

• Pigeons are gentle and smart and have complex social relationships. Their hearing and vision are both excellent.

  

  Ingrid Newkirk
  • Vision
  • Smart
  • Relationships

• Be who you are and be that well.

  

  Saint Francis de Sales
  • You
  • Well
  • Who

• I just make up lyrics off the top of my head. A lot of times, there's a phrase I really like, and I kind of build the song around that.

  

  Washed Out
  • Up
  • Song
  • Kind

• To make the child in your own image is a capital crime, for your image is not worth repeating. The child knows this and you know it. Consequently you hate each other.

  

  Karl Shapiro
  • Hate
  • Know
  • Child

• Early impressions are like glimpses seen through the window by night when lightning is about.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Night
  • Window
  • Early

• I hope everybody enjoys our input on 'Black Water' - it sure was a lot of fun getting to record it.

  

  Zac Brown Band
  • Fun
  • Hope
  • Black

• Sometimes I will make CliffsNotes of my CliffsNotes.

  

  Gavin Newsom
  • Sometimes
  • Will
  • Make

• The plastic bottle we're throwing away every day still stays there. And if we show that to people, then we can also promote some behavioral change.

  

  Carlo Ratti
  • People
  • Change
  • Day

• My motivation and aspiration is the same, being number one or being number five. So that's the truth. And my goal is the same - it's to always be happy playing, it's to enjoy the game and improve always.

  

  Rafael Nadal
  • Truth
  • Happy
  • Game

• Women and girls, men and boys all share the right to live free of violence, which is, unfortunately, experienced by both men and women. Women and girls, however, disproportionately experience violence due to a deeply rooted global culture of gender discrimination.

  

  Nazanin Boniadi
  • Men
  • Live
  • Women

• For a kid in London, Hollywood seems like such a mythical place.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Place
  • Kid
  • London

• I'm proud to be here as a man that has played first base more than anybody in the game of baseball.

  

  Eddie Murray
  • Game
  • Man
  • Proud

• It doesn't mean my footballing ideas are special, different, better than the others. I am not saying it's my football, my ideas, and the other coaches are nothing. It's the way I believe. I'm not special.

  

  Pep Guardiola
  • Believe
  • Different
  • Football

• I was able to not fold and go in a corner because I had my writing as therapy, but also as my tool for struggle.

  

  Edwidge Danticat
  • Writing
  • Struggle
  • Therapy

• In America, people are just so straightforward when they dislike things.

  

  Frances Mayes
  • People
  • America
  • Dislike

• If there is a mystical chord in democracy, it probably revolves around the notion that unexpected music can resonate from politics when people are pursuing questions larger than self... I have seen that ennobling effect in people many, many times- expressed by those who found themselves engaged in genuine acts of democratic expression, who claimed their right to define the larger destiny of their community, their nations.

  

  William Greider
  • People
  • Community
  • Peace

• In Russia religion is the opium of the people; in China opium is the religion of the people.

  

  Edgar Snow
  • People
  • Religion
  • China

• I'm actually an evangelical atheist, but there is something I recognise about religion: that it gives people a chance to surrender.

  

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