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 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 feel like if you enjoyed the 119 hours that precede the finale of 'Lost,' is that whole experience ruined by the fact that you might not agree with everything that we did in the finale? I would hope not! I would hope that you would appreciate the fact that you were entertained for 119 hours even if you didn't love the finale.
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It's easy to be an educated fool.
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The dusk was performing its customary intransitive operation of "gathering".
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Our lives are not determined by what happens to us but how we react to what happens, not by what life brings us but the attitude we bring to life.
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You only do good work when you're taking risks and pushing yourself.
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I've been on swims where people have freaked out about sharks. You have to think about something else, otherwise it will absolutely paralyze you. I do math problems, anything.
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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.
