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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Sometimes things just click. The one contribution I tried to do, was shield the staff from the corporate politics that occur on any show. But yes, we all got along very well.
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Dentistry was an ego trip, and acting is a personal need. Usually it's the reverse, and I honestly don't think I had the talent in my hands to be a good dentist.
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For the last 30 years, I've been leading a life of crime and international intrigue that's involved 40 stamps in my passport, love affairs, and broken hearts to go with each one of them. You would have to live three lifetimes to catch up with just the allegations that follow me!
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She put her hand in his, and he clasped it firmly, knowing he had been waiting for her all his life.
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I'm practical. I see something, and I do it.
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Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.