Gene Robinson Quotes
But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be in heaven together, so we might as well learn to get along here because we will have to get along there. God won't have it any other way.
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During the fall and winter we built Fort Meade and the town of Sturgis.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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Painting what I experience, translating what I feel, is like a great liberation. But it is also work, self-examination, consciousness, criticism, struggle.
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When I'm in Senegal, I can't just sit in isolation making music. People need my help. And the Senegalese people helped create my music. It comes from the country itself.
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I recognize myself to be an intensely naive person. Most novelists are, despite frequent pretensions to deep socio-political insight.
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The thing about being an actor is that every new job is a new challenge. Sometimes you'll have a shot, and it doesn't work. Sometimes it'll work better than you expected.
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I think what has helped me is that I've never thought of myself as a child star. If you think of yourself like that, you might have problems!
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Cooking and eating at home is made even better by the fact that you don't have to worry about driving after a couple of bottles of very nice wine. For me that's the ideal combination: working hard and enjoying the fruits of your labour.
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There's a great freedom in writing by yourself. You can write anything you want.
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I think it is perfectly natural for any artist to admire intensely and love a young man. It is an incident in the life of almost every artist.
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Teens want to read something that isn't a lie; we adults wish we could put our heads under the blankets and hide from the scary story we're writing for our kids.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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In an ideal world, I'd spend every weekend at my home in Zermatt in Switzerland.
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I think that if you haven't been to the grocery store in a really long time, it's really easy to get very out of touch.
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I grew up very differently than a lot of other people in my hometown in Mississippi. But I can't imagine my life any other way. I flew home and surprised my best friend at his graduation, and I remember turning to my mom and saying, 'My graduation was so much cooler than this.' I had Melissa Joan Hart give my commencement speech.
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I think when I first straightened my hair, I was a teenager. I don't believe that I was consciously doing it to look white or to be on television. It never crossed my mind. All of the girls in my neighborhood got perms and their hair straightened. But I know that historically it was to assimilate and there are some people who do it for that reason.
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Unfortunately we have tried to establish Right by Might, and you can 't do that.
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There'll always be wars because men love wars. Women don't, but men do.
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Everyone thinks of God as a man - you can't help it - Santa Claus was a man, therefore God has to be a man.
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We must learn to tell ourselves the truth on the basis of God’s Word.
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But by virtue of our baptism, Peter Akinola and I are brothers in Christ and one day we are going to be in heaven together, so we might as well learn to get along here because we will have to get along there. God won't have it any other way.
