John Shelby Spong Quotes
I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of Heaven to play golf.
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Once I took a bus from my home in Maryland to Philadelphia to live on the streets with some musicians for a few weeks, and then my parents sent me to boarding school at Andover to shape me up.
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The Carnegie Foundation is well aware of the fact that their reports frequently find their way to dusty archives in academic institutions, but occasionally people pick up a segment of a report and act upon it.
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It ultimately becomes an asset to be part of a theatrical family if, indeed, you're good at what you do.
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Paranoia is an illness I contracted in institutions. It is not the reason for my sentences to reform school and prison. It is the effect, not the cause.
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It's a different era. Our job now is to show leadership and vision and to help the next generation of artists.
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I don't look like a model, but you have to work with what you got.
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I was a shy gay man at a time when it was illegal to be gay.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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My aunt took me to see 'Salad Days' when I was seven. This story of a magic piano that infects everyone who hears it infected me, too. It was a Road to Damascus moment in my life.
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I feel very keenly the eyes of the foreign media on our country. And I think a lot of Japanese people feel that things are not working the way they should. When the time comes, I will put myself forward.
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The father of a daughter is nothing but a high-class hostage. A father turns a stony face to his sons, berates them, shakes his antlers, paws the ground, snorts, runs them off into the underbrush, but when his daughter puts her arm over his shoulder and says, 'Daddy, I need to ask you something,' he is a pat of butter in a hot frying pan.
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Being a celebrity is a business.
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Myself, I really like the iPad mounted as a frame, with a happy slideshow cycling through.
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Fools are more to be feared than the wicked.
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Some men are alive simply because it is against the law to kill them.
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Ambition is the germ from which all growth of nobleness proceeds.
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My friends told me that it's the hardest thing to separate the personal life from their work.
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Polka dots are fabulous.
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I never let track define me. That's something that's really important to me.
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When you get lucky, as I did getting to work on a series of amazing films, one of the drawbacks career-wise is that the image of you at 10 or 12 or whatever is burned into people's minds for a long time.
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My quest these days is to find my long lost inner child, but I'm afraid if I do, I'll end up with food in my hair and way too in love with the cats.
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When you don't have to buy something, it allows you to try new things.
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Our first priority has to be getting our fiscal house in order - and creating an atmosphere for the private sector in job creation.
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I don't think much about my physical body going off into the long, green fairways of Heaven to play golf.
