John Cleese Quotes
God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
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At the cross God wrapped his heart in flesh and blood and let it be nailed to the cross for our redemption.
E. Stanley Jones
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I don't believe in God personally but I have great respect for those people who do and different people have different religious views in this country.
Ed Miliband
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Oh while I live, to be the ruler of life, not a slave, to meet life as a powerful conqueror, and nothing exterior to me will ever take command of me.
Walt Whitman
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The most valuable possession you can own is an open heart. The most powerful weapon you can be is an instrument of peace.
Carlos Santana Santana
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I believe in God. God created the world.
P. J. O'Rourke
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I really believed that my songs were good enough for the whole world to listen to. I had fans from America or the U.K. who would be like, 'Oh my God, I love your music'.
Yuna
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My father was always playing the piano. He played all kinds of music - Gershwin, all kinds of stuff.
Kate Bush
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My mother's Mohawk and my father is Scottish/German from Nova Scotia.
Kaniehtiio Horn
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I hope to bring people to God with my songs.
Mahalia Jackson
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My father has been a voice of encouragement in times of desperation for so many people. But he died when I was so young that, for me, his music has been a way for me to get to know him better.
Damian Marley
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The debt of gratitude we owe our mother and father goes forward, not backward. What we owe our parents is the bill presented to us by our children.
Nancy Friday
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I'm really proud of 'Oceans 12.' Of course, you do an 'Oceans' movie, you get known all over the world. It's an incredibly powerful medium: It's a Hollywood-identified blockbuster.
Vincent Cassel
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'Tryin' to Get the Feeling' has been a revelation. I'd forgotten how powerful that was. I'd forgotten how deep I can crawl into that one, and maybe because I'm older it means even more.
Barry Manilow
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They say you can rap about anything except for Jesus, that means guns, sex, lies, video tapes, but if I talk about God my record won't get played Huh?
Kanye West
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Put your mind on the gospel. And remember - there's one God for all.
Mahalia Jackson
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Human curiosity, the urge to know, is a powerful force and is perhaps the best secret weapon of all in the struggle to unravel the workings of the natural world.
Aaron Klug
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Prosecutors say my father was the biggest crime boss in the nation... If you really want to know what John Gotti was like, you need to talk to my family. We lived this life.
Victoria Gotti
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Pastoral ministry is about an ongoing confrontation with the god of this world, with blindness, hardness of heart, remaining sin.
C. J. Mahaney
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The one thing that remains is looking in the face of God for ourselves.
Oswald Chambers
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I am not virtuous. Our sons will be if we shed enough blood to give them the right to be.
Jean-Paul Sartre
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Here's the truth. Your teens and twenties are your Plan A. At 50, you're assessing whether Plan B or Plan C or any of the other plans you hatched actually worked. Your sixties and seventies, they're an improvisation.
Dick Van Dyke
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To this day she could make tap water boil just by kissing him.
Sarah Addison Allen
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God was treated like this powerful, erratic, rather punitive father who has to be pacified and praised. You know, flattered.
John Cleese