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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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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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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Many women long for what eludes them, and like not what is offered them.
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Human nature was all about shifting blame...and responsibility. How else could you explain concentration camps and genocide and all the awful things people did to each other every day? They just carried on life and pretended like the evil didn't exist, as long as it was happening out of their direct view.
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People love to see you get ahead — so long as you don't get farther ahead than they are.
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People don't want to serve apprenticeships any more. Kids expect to be paid and treated really well and all that guff before they've achieved anything. It doesn't work like that. You have to spend five or six years being relatively rubbish and put up with it. For that you don't deserve to be getting lottery money.
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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.
