Gene Robinson Quotes
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
Quotes to Explore
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
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I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
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Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
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Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
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I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
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As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
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History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.
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I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
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As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
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If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
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Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
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I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
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I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
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All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
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I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
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It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.
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And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.
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Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
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I remember talking to John Mortimer, and he said he was relying on Rumpole to keep him in his old age; well, I'm doing the same with Phryne - she's my mainstay.
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I studied law, economy, international relations, communications, in order to find what I would do. It's the hardest thing, being 17 and trying to find what to do in life. You've explored so little. I'm lucky: My parents let me explore.
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After we'd filmed one series of 'Kiss Me Kate,' everyone was saying: 'The guy's got great comic timing,' - that was the first I'd heard of it. I'm not a comedian, I don't want to depend on a singular box of tricks. I like story and characters, to take on world views that are not my own.
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I would like to say that that even the teachings of the Koran cannot be exempted from criticism.
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Be yourself! Love your mom, but if she's trying to get you to be someone you're not, she's in the wrong.
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Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
