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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I've ended up on some website list or some other list for super right-wing people. They've been tweeting some pretty rude stuff at me, so I think there's a sect of America out there that doesn't like certain opinions and can really take their claws out when they don't like what you're saying.
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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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I've never filed a patent lawsuit. I hope never to file a patent lawsuit. That may be unrealistic, but it would be great if I could avoid doing it... Lawsuits are a ridiculous way to do business.
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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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Now all my teachers are dead except silence.
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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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Particularly when you're young, you're terribly flattered by people who like you, so you think you love them.
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I'd love to be in the '70s. I'd love to have a big, long wig parted down the middle with flat-ironed hair and bell-bottoms. They're actually very flattering for my figure. The wider the leg, the better for a person with a booty.
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What's on the page dictates a lot of what I do. When the words are there, it's easy.
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I famously had a huge television producer say to me one time, 'Can you please stop doing that to your face? It's very distracting and unattractive.' And I was like, 'You mean move it? Okay, sorry, I guess we're not going to work together.'
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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.
