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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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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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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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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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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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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When I was 11, I decided to start rapping, playing guitar, and writing songs. Everything really blossomed from there.
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People just can't wrap their heads around two young black women in a major production.
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I think it's important to remember where I began. I know that when I talk to other writers, say, writers from the South or writers from abroad, it's where they begin as children that is important to them.
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I'd like to see the giant squid. Nobody has ever seen one. I could tell you people who have spent thousands and thousands of pounds trying to see giant squid. I mean, we know they exist because we have seen dead ones. But I have never seen a living one. Nor has anybody else.
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I don't tell many people my last name.
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I'm a Jane Austen/Jane Eyre kind of girl.
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Every campaign, Garry Wills once wrote, 'taught Nixon the same lesson: mobilize resentment against those in power.' History taught the same to many conservative and reactionary populist movements, whose real attitude to those in power and authority was one of a servile, envious, vicarious adoration.
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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.
