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.
John Shelby Spong
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When I was 15 years old, I read an article about Ivan Boesky, the well-known takeover trader - turned out years later it was all on inside information! But before that came to light, he was very successful, very flamboyant. And I thought, 'This is what I want to do.' So I'm 15 years old, I decide I'm going to Wall Street.
Karen Finerman
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I like being an outsider. It is better in France on the outside.
Xavier Niel
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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.
Kara Walker
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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?
Park Shin-hye
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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.
Eden Hazard
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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.
Fannie Lou Hamer
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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.
Harold Bloom
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It is so important for girls and boys to have a female, strong superhero to look up to.
Gal Gadot
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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.
Farnaz Fassihi
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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.
D. H. Lawrence
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One has to have the courage of one's pessimism.
Ian Mcewan
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I fell in love, not deep, but I fell several times and then fell out.
Carl Sandburg
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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.
P. J. O'Rourke
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A definition is a map, but it is not the journey.
George Holyoake
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For me, when I read a book, I'm very much about detail.
Emma Roberts
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My mom had a huge video camera that I would always play with, and there is home video of me, like, with the camera letting her know, 'I want to do stuff like this when I grow up.'
Rick Gonzalez
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Whatever judgment we make is a subjective one we're making now, and that it could change.
Bernie Glassman
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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.
John Shelby Spong
