Madeleine L'Engle Quotes
It has often struck me with awe that some of the most deeply religious people I know have been, on the surface, atheists.
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I love the immediacy of an audience being there and reacting. I'm spoiled, having grown up in theater.
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My experience growing up in a rough and tumble town in the blue-collar world of Western Pennsylvania in the 1970s was that anything a man did was always more important than anything a woman did.
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Once you make it to your point of making it, you'll appreciate the struggle.
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Writers have an opinion about the world and offer arguments about the world. They should offer contemplation.
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An alliance of civilisations can be our most powerful weapon in the fight against terror.
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If you see a whole thing - it seems that it's always beautiful. Planets, lives... But up close a world's all dirt and rocks. And day to day, life's a hard job, you get tired, you lose the pattern.
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I would never date a celebrity. I would want someone with real skills. Doctor, nurse, electrician... tailor.
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I am really glad I was raised Catholic. I like the fundamental aspects of that religion. I think they give you great grounding in terms of having a moral code. But I do not subscribe to any religion specifically now.
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The politics of the Cape Town Metro, which allows an executive Mayoral committee to make secret decisions which affect you, behind closed doors, is wrong!
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To gain strength in our struggles, we must have a positive perspective of the principles in the plan of salvation. We must realize that we have a personal Savior whom we can trust and turn to in our times of need.
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I've always thought that it's good to watch the news to find out what everybody else is looking at and believing, if only because that's how consensus is constructed.
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I have been interested in fashion since I was a kid. Then I lived in London, where it was more about costume and a personal statement of who you are than about fashion.
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I think my father was somewhat disappointed in not having had a son, and in that way I was the nearest thing he had.
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Pride is pleasure arising from a man's thinking too highly of himself.
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In the U.S., diversity is a politically correct slogan. In India, it is a historical fact. Much as we in the West may resent it, India has a lot to teach us when it comes to religious tolerance.
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Public opinion is a permeating influence, and it exacts obedience to itself; it requires us to drink other men's thoughts, to speak other men's words, to follow other men's habits.
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My mission is to support our service members. They're volunteers, and if they're going to go to a hostile place like Afghanistan, I think we owe it to them to back them up and try to help them get through it.
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We did a lot of those road trips, all the mandatory stuff that you should when you're a kid, like Mount Rushmore and the Grand Canyon and the Sequoias and the western coast.
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We went from journalism, in newspapers that gets heavily edited, to blogs, where you can express your opinions, to tweeting, where you can say anything, and it gets repeated and becomes fact when it isn't. It's something the entire world is going to have to come to grips with.
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What's breaking into a bank compared with founding a bank?
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The thing about covers is that the first thing you're going to notice is the vocals, because it's not the same person.
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I read. It affects every decision that I make. Every dollar that I spend, every dollar that I make.
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It has often struck me with awe that some of the most deeply religious people I know have been, on the surface, atheists.
