Madeleine L'Engle Quotes
I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
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While the older generation is content to sit around and critique culture, that culture is moving beyond them. At some point the traditional church and all of the expressions of that church will become essentially irrelevant.
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You can be tops in Australia and be unheard of everywhere else.
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It's simply untrue that religion provides the only framework for a universal morality.
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Life is a game. Money is how we keep score.
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Your best ideas, those eureka moments that turn the world upside down, seldom come when you're juggling emails, rushing to meet the 5 P.M. deadline or straining to make your voice heard in a high-stress meeting. They come when you're walking the dog, soaking in the bath or swinging in a hammock.
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The most striking development of the great depression of 1929 is a profound skepticism of the future of contemporary society among large sections of the American people.
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Denial of childhood and denial of freedom are the biggest sins which humankind has been committing and perpetuating for ages.
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I throw better than anybody in college and I can throw with anybody in the pros. There, that's what I think.
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There had always been black people in and out of our house, and from the outset I had been taught that for them life was defined by struggle and filled with injustice.
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I've come a long way since 2007 when I kind of launched my golf career.
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I really was about to pass out during my entire wedding. I just didn't know if I could marry anybody.
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I didn't know Jack Kennedy that well, but Bobby was a hero to me.
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I find the whole situation of confronting an audience terrifying.
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I let characters be human and flawed and relatable. When we do things that aren't that great, we can understand it.
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We cannot rest until we make sure that our families can afford to live and raise their kids here, that our seniors can remain in their homes and afford their health and pharmaceutical costs.
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Unlike fashion, art isn't applied. It doesn't have to serve anybody. It doesn't have to be there for any other reason than to give an impression of what the world is about.
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Thomas Pynchon looks exactly like Thomas Pynchon should look. He is tall, he wears lumberjack shirts and blue jeans. He has Albert Einstein white hair and Bugs Bunny front teeth.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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Some relationships get easier as you get older, depending on what sort of person you are. I don't think I've got any better at them.
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We are too busy to pray, and so we are too busy to have power.
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Unless you're a big movie star, regular television work is going to bring you more exposure than anything. Everybody has a television; not everybody goes to the movies.
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Conservatives shouldn't count on the Supreme Court to do our work for us on Obamacare. The Court may rule as it should, and strike down the mandate. But it may not. And even if it does, the future of health care in America - and for that matter, the future of limited government - depends ultimately on the verdict of the American people.
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I really value words. I really try to illustrate and let people draw their own conclusions.
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I like the fact that in ancient Chinese art the great painters always included a deliberate flaw in their work: human creation is never perfect.
