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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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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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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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 have a love for Shea Stadium and its fans. I had so much fun with the fans. Yeah, they booed me. I was like, 'I know, I know.'
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Scientific thought and its creation is the common and shared heritage of mankind.
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If I need something, even a pair of socks, my assistant has to get them for me.
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When it gets down to it you just have to act.
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As an entrepreneur, one cannot just work and not say anything.
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I didn't realize how many true Rockabilly fans there were here in America.
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At home I can become lazy and if a Welsh word is really long, I just replace it with English.
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I'm trying to keep my personal life personal. It's very hard for me because I'm a very honest person.
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One of the things that has been very difficult in Libya is the sense of uncertainty - the sense that they haven't actually finished the revolution, that there was still a great deal of uncertainty. That uncertainty has made Libya harder for business in terms of oil and other things as well.
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'What dya mean theres no fackin chips, I come ere on a plane, you cunt! I've got children ere, what am I spose to do with this fackin tomato fiasco.'
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Usually after I'm done with working, I just come home and play a little game and go to bed. After work, I have a lot time to do a lot of stuff. I think I've got a good balance of work and play.
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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.
