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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If you're laying in bed next to someone that really doesn't make you feel like the goddess that you are, you need to rediscover what it is that you truly want and need.
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It'll come off. If you can't get it off yourself, just take it to Miss Jody.
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Dylan Nice's Other Kinds is the most extraordinary short-story-col lection debut I have read in years. It is a book to be memorized.
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Entrepreneurship is an art, not a job.
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The food we eat masks so much cruelty. The fact that we can sit down and eat a piece of chicken without thinking about the horrendous conditions under which chickens are industrially bred in this country is a sign of the dangers of capitalism, how capitalism has colonized our minds. The fact that we look no further than the commodity itself, the fact that we refuse to understand the relationships that underly the commodities that we use on a daily basis. And so food is like that.
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Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
