Jerry Falwell Quotes

I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.

Jerry Falwell

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• Somebody said they threw their copy of Dungeons and Dragons into the fire, and it screamed. It's a game! The magic spells in it are as real as the gold. Try retiring on that stuff.

  

  Gary Gygax
  • Real
  • Game
  • Fire

• It's really hard for kids nowadays: you can get a decent education, but there are no jobs out there. You worry about how they are ever going to afford to live anywhere.

  

  Gary Lineker
  • Live
  • Kids
  • Education

• I love Chennai and its people. My mother always tells me, 'You should have been born a South Indian!'

  

  Hansika Motwani
  • People
  • Mother
  • Always

• I've gone for long stretches without working. I remember many times peeking into my checkbook to see if any money was left.

  

  Randa Haines
  • Long
  • Money
  • Remember

• The institution of marriage works better when there's a spiritual connection. If you're marrying just for the sake of the woman, then you may lose interest in each other very soon. When we marry in the interest of the Holy Spirit with the intention of serving God and humanity, then it gives a much larger perspective.

  

  A. R. Rahman
  • God
  • May
  • Marriage

• North Americans don't understand... that our country is not just Cuba; our country is also humanity.

  

  Fidel Castro
  • Country
  • Humanity
  • Cuba

• That is America. That is America. Those bonds of affection; that common creed. We don't fear the future; we shape it. We embrace it, as one people, stronger together than we are on our own.

  

  Barack Obama
  • People
  • America
  • Together

• I have always been, and shall continue to be, honest when it comes to bodyweight issues.

  

  Kate Winslet
  • Always
  • Honest
  • Been

• It was becoming clear that, from being at the top at Holy Cross, we were at the bottom at St. Peter's. Objectively, this was very good, for it offered us a challenge and an opportunity to grow if we were ready to take it; and we surely were.

  

  Oliver Tambo
  • Good
  • Opportunity
  • Challenge

• In a memoir, your main contract with the reader is to tell the truth, no matter how bizarre.

  

  Edmund White
  • Truth
  • Matter
  • Contract

• I think I became a writer because I didn't know of anything else to do. Maybe some incident from my childhood influenced me.

  

  Patrick Modiano
  • Childhood
  • Writer
  • Influenced

• Ultimately, the goal of sanctions is to ratchet up the economic pressure on the Iranians to such a level that the regime determines it is simply too great to bear, and they are forced to weigh the decision to carry on their nuclear development and their illicit quest for nuclear weapons against the ever-growing pressure from their own people.

  

  Ted Deutch
  • People
  • Up
  • Great

• My mom always talks about how hard it was to grow up in a political family. It's always split up, and just - I want to have fun in life. No, politics isn't on the list.

  

  Patrick Schwarzenegger
  • Life
  • Up
  • Family

• I live in rural New Hampshire, and we are, frankly, short on people who are black, gay, Jewish, and Hispanic. In fact, we're short on people. My town has a population of 301.

  

  P. J. O'Rourke
  • People
  • Live
  • Black

• Oh, I'm definitely a wild child.

  

  Naomi Watts
  • Child
  • WIld
  • Oh

• The obsessive rules of etiquette struck Emily as mean-spirited, like the old trick of tying someone’s shoelaces under the table. It was only fun if you liked watching people fall down.

  

  M. K. Hobson
  • People
  • Fun
  • Fall

• Liking interesting things doesn’t make you interesting.

  

  Ben Gibbard Death Cab for Cutie
  • Interesting

• I'm spending nights just dreaming / And playing the music loud / They're banging on the ceiling / They're praying that I'll soon be out.

  

  Kim Wilde
  • Music

• But I remember the moment when my father died. I wasn't a very committed Catholic beforehand, but when that happened it suddenly all felt so obvious: I now believe religion is our attempt to find an explanation, for us to feel more protected.

  

  Javier Bardem
  • Believe
  • Remember
  • Father

• In a way, I don't create anything; I just open myself to the character, and the character takes over. Of course, I'm aware of it, and I'm driving it, but I don't try to control it. If I try to control it, it goes wrong.

  

  Marion Cotillard
  • Character
  • Control
  • Driving

• Allopathic doctors used to laugh condescendingly at those who posited that psychological, emotional and spiritual factors were important contributors to the sickness as well as healing of the body.

  

  Marianne Williamson
  • Important
  • Spiritual
  • Emotional

• What I've learned is that the clearer the creative vision, the clearer the idea for the show, the easier it is to rally your partners around what you're doing.

  

  Luke Roberts
  • Vision

• I don't think I know a Scientologist except when I see one or two of their actors on the Hollywood screen.

  

  Jerry Falwell