John Henrik Clarke Quotes
My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
Quotes to Explore
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The search for knowledge is a long and difficult task.
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The only thing that permits human beings to collaborate with one another in a truly open-ended way is their willingness to have their beliefs modified by new facts. Only openness to evidence and argument will secure a common world for us.
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I don't know whether the universe contains any evidence of intelligent design, but I can assure you that thousands of everyday products do not.
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I did not have a van, or wear Birkenstocks and tie-dyes.
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I had been writing songs for other people for a while, and I made a demo and I put it on my Myspace, which Perez Hilton found and blogged about on his site.
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I grew up in a hippie commune so I have a real hippie part of me.
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Marijuana is not tested for, and yet that is the big thing guys are getting in trouble with in the league. It's terrible.
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Some of the craziest people I've met, in my life, are some of the most brilliant people I've met.
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I lost my mother and my brother when I was 15 in two separate car accidents. I was doing well at school. I was a good sportsperson, but at that point, I gave up on all of those things that were there to be done. I couldn't deal with them.
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Playing in Wembley Stadium in front of 83-some-thousand fans to win a gold medal was unreal.
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Mothers are the people who love us for no good reason. And those of us who are mothers know it's the most exquisite love of all.
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IQ is a commodity, data is a commodity. I'm far more interested in watching people interact at a restaurant with their smartphone. We can all read 'Tech Crunch,' 'Ad Age.' I would rather be living in the trenches. I would rather be going to Whole Foods in Columbus Circle to watch people shop with their smartphones.
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I never thought of myself as a performer or songwriter or singer.
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I hate the fact that people think 'compromise' is a dirty word.
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When men are full of envy they disparage everything, whether it be good or bad.
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I was so overprotected, I used to think I was as delicate as people said I was.
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We had a saying at Blockbuster: 'If you don't come in on Saturday, don't bother coming in on Sunday.' We worked hard.
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I'll make the right decision, whichever one it is. I have to be 100 percent, not 95 or 99.
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If you want to be a singer, you've got to concentrate on it twenty-four hours a day. You can't be a well driller, too. You've got to concentrate on the business of entertaining and writing songs. Always think different from the next person. Don't ever do a song as you heard somebody else do it.
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I try not to picture a reader when I'm writing. It's like trying to make a great table but not picturing anybody sitting at it.
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'We, The People' is more than a statement of purpose. It is an acknowledgement of an obligation to each other.
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In one respect, I like the freedom of using all the people that I love instead of being dictated by the studio to use the hot person of the moment.
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My main point here is that if you are the child of God and God is a part of you, the in your imagination God suppose to look like you. And when you accept a picture of the deity assigned to you by another people, you become the spiritual prisoners of that other people.
