Gene Robinson Quotes
The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church has never supported that celibacy be mandated for someone not called to it. It's never imposed on someone.
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We all look at ourselves in the mirror and think, 'Am I good?'
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I'm advocating that American citizens interested in democracy should stay out of chain stores.
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Of course my parents are picky about the girls I date; my parents watch out for me.
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If I were dead, then nobody in England would have to fuss about the cost of my security and whether or not I merited such special treatment for so long.
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I was afraid the other musicians might want to present themselves too much, though I see in the coverage I've received of the album that the musicians got wonderful reviews for their contributions and abilities. I think the four musicians played freely within my limits.
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I made a good living for a teenager. And I had to learn all different kinds of music - jazz, swing, Motown, pop - and that inspired what kind of music I started to write.
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The cool thing about my show and me is that I'm a writer, and I'm a writer first if I don't have music.
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It's so nice that there's all this new space for new, good content. It's good news for us actors, since nobody makes real independent films anymore.
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You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.
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The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.
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Kibbeh comes in all forms, but most feature bulgur and meat.
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It is better for the Arab countries themselves to interfere out of their national, humanitarian, political and military duties and to do what is necessary to stop the bloodshed in Syria.
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I want to see talent and companies and money and entrepreneurs moving to Chicago.
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A creature that cannot grasp the mutual exclusiveness of A and not A has no difficulty in lying; more than that, such a creature has not even any consciousness of lying, being without a standard of truth.
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We are the mimics. Clouds are pedagogues.
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He'll never fall in loveHe swears, as he runs his fingers through his hair.I'm laughing 'cause I hope he's wrong.And I don't think it ever crossed his mind.He tells a joke, I fake a smileThat I know all his favorite songs.
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Do the best job I can, not hurt our fellow beings on this planet, that's my religion.
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No nation ever yet found any inconvenience from too close an inspection into the conduct of its officers, but many have been brought to ruin and reduced to slavery by suffering gradual impositions and abuses.
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Whenever I'm asked about the greatest lesson I've learned, my response is, 'Happiness is a choice I make.'
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My main dream - and I'm trying to get 'Living TV' to do it - is to go into prison and interview serial killers, rapists, murderers, psychopaths.
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It is after creation, in the elation of success, or the gloom of failure, that love becomes essential.
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Vatican II was a force that seized the mind of the Roman Catholic Church and carried it across centuries from the 13th to the 20th.
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That is simply that Marxism has been tremendously fashionable in our time, so it has infected a very large number of major institutions in many countries of the world. So I suppose that we shouldn't be too surprised that it should infect the church as well.
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The truly longstanding tradition in the church is that some are called to celibacy. Some feel called to it. But the church has never supported that celibacy be mandated for someone not called to it. It's never imposed on someone.
