John Shelby Spong Quotes
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The eulogy virtues are the ones that are talked about at your funeral - whether you were kind, brave, honest or faithful. Were you capable of deep love? I want to foster eulogy virtues when I'm in a yoga class or meditation session or any spiritual gathering. Especially if I'm lying in corpse pose. It just makes sense.
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Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
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I uplift people and see the good in a bad situation. The worst is I'm very critical of myself. If I do a performance, I watch it 100 times afterwards and pick it apart.
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Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
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I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
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You just can't control your art in the future.
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I don't have feeling in my feet to my fingertips; I also have active lesions in my bone marrow and in my eyes.
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The notion that female initiative is useless because men know what they want is particularly odd - most people don't even know what they want for dinner.
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A lot of children remember seeing cartoons, 'Pinocchio' or 'Bambi' or something that breaks their heart. I remember seeing 'The Blue Angel' and it breaking my heart. It was the first time I realised there was an adult world - that adults could damage each other or destroy each other emotionally.
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I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
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We are like a woman with a difficult pregnancy. We have to rebuild the social classes in Egypt, and we must change the way things were.
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Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
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Like its Senate counterpart, H.R. 1908 is the product of years of bipartisan collaboration. And now, by passing S. 1145, the U.S. Senate has a similar opportunity to restore our patent regime to its rightful position of protecting inventors' property rights and spurring innovation. These are values that all Americans should rally behind.
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Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
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Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
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A new era of responsibility is here.
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I like to see a film and then start scoring it in my mind while doing something unrelated. You just grasp a film and start working, and something unpredictable comes out from a third element. The mind, the more active it is, the more productive it is.
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When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
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Electricity does not centralize, but decentralizes. (p. 36)
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I know I look good. The regular adjectives that come my way - sexy, hot, dusky, bong bombshell... I love them.
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It's that kind of choice of a woman - to go with the nice guy or the nasty guy. And I think that all women get to make that choice and they always go for the suave, nasty guy. It's a fact of life.
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Those who don’t love themselves as they are rarely love life either.
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That is the essence of science: ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to a pertinent answer.
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Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.