Jay Parini Quotes
Within the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push back against modern' readings of the Bible that suggested everything in the text wasn't true in some literal sense.Jay Parini
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My father got me involved in the game when I was four years old.
Natalie Gulbis -
The Open Access Movement has fought valiantly to ensure that scientists do not sign their copyrights away but instead ensure their work is published on the Internet, under terms that allow anyone to access it.
Aaron Swartz -
Afrikaans culture is very right-wing and conservative, very proper, and you get this hidden underbelly, the zef side of Afrikaans which no one knows about.
Watkin Tudor Jones -
Both World War II and the subsequent Cold War gave America's involvement in world affairs a clear focus. The objectives of foreign policy were relatively easy to define, and they could be imbued with high moral content.
Zbigniew Brzezinski -
I want to do roles that take women a step farther. I don't want to be slotted into anything. But if I get a brilliant role which requires me to be a mother, then I will do it. But I want people to see that a woman could be anything at whatever age, even if she is married or has two kids.
Madhuri Dixit -
What the Pope thinks of being gay does not matter to the world. It matters to the people who like the Pope and follow the Pope... It is not a reflection of all religious people.
Lady Gaga
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When friends ask for a second cup they are open to conversation.
Gail Parent -
I'm completely in love with the idea of love.
Orlando Bloom -
Whilst we deliberate how to begin a thing, it grows too late to begin it.
Quintilian -
Dr. Dre, my oldest brother, he paved the way for me and Snoop to get a chance to get into the studio. I asked him to show me how to work the MPC-60... I was about maybe 17, 18, right around there.
Warren G -
We may define therapy as a search for value.
Abraham Maslow -
I've made these films, and I'm really proud, but my lifestyle hasn't changed.
Taron Egerton
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I investigated post-traumatic stress disorder. I've been to a unit where people are suffering from it, and I read a lot of literature. I looked at footage of soldiers in the combat zone. I found 'Restrepo' to be unbelievably useful.
Damian Lewis -
Today we know that centralization and big bureaucracies have not, as promised, been the answer for promoting better opportunities for society.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari -
Literature is an avenue to glory, ever open for those ingenious men who are deprived of honours or of wealth.
Isaac D'Israeli -
I will always tell the truth and do what I said I would do.
Ted Cruz -
I do not know You, God, because I am in the way. Please help me to push myself aside.
Flannery O'Connor -
Mum is the girliest of them all, but she ended up with me, the tomboy.
Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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I don't keep up with Twitter all day long.
Jill Abramson -
I was suppose to be a Jesuit priest or a naval academy graduate.
Jimmy Buffett -
All religions try to benefit people, with the same basic message of the need for love and compassion, for justice and honesty, for contentment.
Dalai Lama -
Scientists are not delinquents. Our work has changed the conditions in which men live, but the use made of these changes is the problem of governments, not of scientists.
J. Robert Oppenheimer -
In this world it is not what we take up, but what we give up, that makes us rich.
Henry Ward Beecher -
Within the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push back against modern' readings of the Bible that suggested everything in the text wasn't true in some literal sense.
Jay Parini