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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Most interviewers are looking for a headline. They're not skilled. They're looking for shock value.
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I've often been told that I'm a 30-year-old trapped in a teenager's body. I don't know how I feel about that, but I'll take it, I guess. I'm definitely mature, and I'm the one that takes care of everyone in my friendship group.
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What I know beyond a shadow of a doubt is that God is with me. I know that. I know that He's always been with me. It is evident in everything I have endured-and the fact that I made it through with some sanity.
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Barry and I were in the middle of building a house, and I was in the midst of having a nervous breakdown, because that's what you do when you build a house.
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His last words were spoken to a woman, to the nurse who was holding his hand. Perhaps we all have the last words ready when we go into the last room. Perhaps the thing about last words is not how good they are, but whether we can get them out. What Larkin said faintly was, 'I'm going to the inevitable.'
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Almost every day, instead of going to school, I made for the fields, where I spent my day.
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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.
