John Shelby Spong Quotes
I believe God is real, but I believe God calls me beyond myself to take responsibility for my life and to try top work to allow other people to be themselves and to take responsibility for their lives.
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I'm crazy about the Coen brothers, I'm crazy about Sean Penn. I love the usual suspects like Susan Sarandon, Meryl Streep and people like that.
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I feel like the reason people feel like they know me is because I'm giving you myself in the music. There's where the connection comes from; you can't Twitter that.
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I'm ambidextrous when I eat. But playing tennis right-handed - I can't do it. I'm clueless.
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Look at how many North Carolina kids have played for me or tried out for me or coached with me. I've had Dennis Wuycik, Steve Previs, Billy Chamberlain, Donald Washington, Darrell Elston, Tommy LaGarde, Bobby Jones. You name it, I've had them. Whatever Coach has ever asked me to do, I've done. Because I love the school, and I worship him.
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I learned at an early age that I was given something special when I was born, and that was the gift of music.
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When I was a kid, I had two great guilty pleasures. One was horror movies and the other was martial arts movies.
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I write synopses after the book is completed. I can't write it beforehand, because I don't know what the book's about. I invent something for my publisher because he asks for one, but the final book ends up very differently.
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Communism is not love. Communism is a hammer which we use to crush the enemy.
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No good actor ever stops learning. He is constantly evolving.
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When men are romantically interested in you, it's really simple. Just ignore everything they say and only pay attention to what they do.
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Pasta with melted cheese is the one thing I could eat over and over again.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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Intimacy is something to be cherished, and intimacy is not something to be afraid of.
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There are as many forms of happiness as sorrow, though most prove fleeting.
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Reading about Queen Victoria has been a passion of mine since, as a child, I came across Laurence Housman's play 'Happy and Glorious,' with its Ernest Shepard illustrations.
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I've always considered myself to look like a rather plain-and-exhausted bluestocking, so it's rather odd to read Tweets commenting on my appearance.
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Even if I only had 10 readers, I'd rather do the book for them than for a million readers online.
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I never expect to lose. Even when I'm the underdog, I still prepare a victory speech.
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Young people do not watch television; they are on the Internet.
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The voice of parents is the voice of gods, for to their children they are heaven's lieutenants.
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Facebook is quite entrenched and has a network effect. It's hard to break into a network once it's formed.
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As a kid, I was so short, it was tough for me to keep up with the taller guys. I always had quick feet, but I just didn't have any power, really, as a kid.
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The fact 'Twin Peaks' had a life at all took most of us in the cast by surprise. We thought it would be too unusual for network television. The original intention was that it would be a two-hour movie. If the network didn't want to pick it up as a series, it could just show that. But ABC took a chance.
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I believe God is real, but I believe God calls me beyond myself to take responsibility for my life and to try top work to allow other people to be themselves and to take responsibility for their lives.
