Gene Robinson Quotes
I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
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Mikhail Gorbachev was the Jimmy Carter of the Communist bloc. The Russians hate him.
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One of the biggest lessons I've learned during my time on 'Oprah' is that everyone wants to be heard. We all want to have our humanity acknowledged - to have others see us for who we truly are. We all want to know that we are valued, we are heard, we are understood.
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In Australia, they really want to turn me into a religion. A religion! Can you imagine? The Church of Edna? Oh. I don't want to be over-revered.
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It's tough to be 68 and dating. I've given it up now.
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Gov. Perry has led the way in Texas on creating an environment for job growth.
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When you are at the bottom, you find beauty in such little things, and goodness in such little gestures. When I compare any struggle today to ones that I may have had in my childhood, there is nothing that can bring me down.
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The trick of this thing and the beauty of this thing is that it's a cowboy movie first and then stuff happens. Even after stuff happens it doesn't change - it hasn't suddenly changed into another kind of movie. It's still a cowboy movie. And that's what's incredible about it because nobody has done that before, that's new territory.
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I've done some music for films and I really enjoy doing it.
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The only real indulgence was buying a house. That was a pretty big step.
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One of the biggest things that happens to many people when they have kids is that you suddenly realize that you're not going to last forever. You know there is another generation who are the heroes of their own stories, and that is humbling.
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I love acting. I've been doing it since I was 16, and it's in my nature. It's the thing I do best. But as much as I love acting, I love cinema more. I always had a thing about creating images.
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Some cause happiness wherever they go; others whenever they go.
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I usually have more than one thing I'm working on at once - I've been working on three different novels. When I get stuck on one, I hop back and forth.
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Reading galleys on the subway is the closest the publishing industry comes to having a standardized mating call.
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Life is an adventure, it's not a package tour.
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The air of ideas is the only air worth breathing.
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As much as we need to approve the Keystone pipeline, we need to think far broader than that.
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I have a very musical family from my Scottish roots.
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I had my bad-boy moment in my teens. I'll never do that again. It wasn't pleasant, and I learned my lesson. It was sexy and mysterious, and it's like, 'Look how cool they are,' but it's just not worth it. He was lying to me and accusing me of cheating - but then I realized he was the one cheating.
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I remember playing games and having tears roll down my face because it felt like it was never going to be good enough.
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Someone has to pick up the tab when people get out of repaying their own debts.
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Given the divisiveness and pain that have accompanied several state religious freedom laws, I approach attempts at legislating religious exceptions to anti-discrimination laws with great sensitivity and care.
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You don't get 'The Unfinished Swan' or 'Shadow of the Colossus' or even Telltale's 'Walking Dead' until you've sat through the long, linear infodumps of something like 'Metal Gear Solid'.
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I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.
