John Shelby Spong Quotes
The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
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It feels like a game, this work I do. It is totally heartfelt, and I love the sticky terrain, the straight-up cartoons, how the irrepressible and icky rise to the surface. But I am not just trying to call forth bugaboos and demons for the sake of it, for fun.
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When I was younger, I wanted to marry early, like at 23. Year by year, I found things I wanted to do, and the thought of marriage disappeared. But I don't want to marry too late. Around 31?
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I know how to make the difference. When I make the difference, I often do it at the end of the match, and that shows that I am fresh.
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If the white man gives you anything - just remember when he gets ready he will take it right back. We have to take for ourselves.
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Criticism in the universities, I'll have to admit, has entered a phase where I am totally out of sympathy with 95% of what goes on. It's Stalinism without Stalin.
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
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Almost immediately, I remember right when Tikrit even fell, a few days after Baghdad fell, there was talks of insurgency, there was talks of jihad and of resisting the American occupiers, and slowly this turned into an organized movement.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
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Multicultural markets are nuanced but not alien.
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You'd better believe that Putin sees that in Syria, Obama draws a red line and ignores the red line.
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I didn't know 'Homeland' was going to be 'Homeland.' I just did it because it was a terrific script, and they pitched me the story line, and I was like, 'Huh, that's interesting.'
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I've been a ballerina since I was two, but I've always wanted to be an actress.
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Lawyers and other professionals are using Quora to build their reputation and build their bonafides.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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Public schools helped create the idea of America and inculcate Americans with a few rudiments of knowledge. To judge by that very American item, the Internet, a few rudiments is all anyone cares to have.
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The smallest number, with God and truth on their side, are weightier than thousands.
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Did I express my personality? I think that's quite unimportant because it's not people's selves but what they have to say about life that's important.
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The disinterested love of truth which culture fosters is akin to the unselfishness which is a characteristic of the good.
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For me, the first thing is to tell a good story.
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Poets are always ahead of things in a certain way, their sense of language and their vision.
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The Bible interprets life from its particular perspective; it does not record in a factual way the human journey through history.
