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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Democracy is a daring concept - a hope that we'll be best governed if all of us participate in the act of government. It is meant to be a conversation, a place where the intelligence and local knowledge of the electorate sums together to arrive at actions that reflect the participation of the largest possible number of people.
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Socialism is good when it comes to wages, but it tells me nothing when it comes to other questions in life that are more private and painful, for which I must seek answers elsewhere.
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The desire to be and have a sister is a primitive and profound one that may have everything or nothing to do with the family a woman is born to. It is a desire to know and be known by someone who shares blood and body, history and dreams.
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People say Altamont was the end of the 60s. It was unfortunate, but at the time we didnt think of it as signaling anything. The fact that nobody got killed at Woodstock is amazing because that was half a million people. We only had 300,000 at Altamont.
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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.
