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.
Maggie Rowe -
Weddings are really good for making you feel terrible about yourself if you're not where you want to be in life.
Wendi McLendon-Covey -
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.
Fleur East -
Excellence is not a skill, it's an attitude.
Ralph Marston -
I really am pretty boring. There's no reason to take pictures of me.
Kat Dennings -
You just can't control your art in the future.
Damian Loeb
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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.
Karen Duffy -
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.
Katha Pollitt -
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.
Sam Taylor-Wood -
I spent a lot of time between bars like this.
Tammy Duckworth -
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.
Naguib Mahfouz -
Good work is good work wherever it's done, in a play, a motion picture or television, and that includes commercials.
Parker Stevenson
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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.
Viet D. Dinh -
Both my parents had heart problems: my mother had type 2 diabetes, and my father had a stroke.
Imelda Staunton -
Never relinquish clothing to a hotel valet without first specifically telling him that you want it back.
Fran Lebowitz -
A new era of responsibility is here.
Valerie Jarrett -
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.
A. R. Rahman -
When I record something, I'll take a drive and just listen.
Aaron Neville
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I think people do want to cut through the noise, and they do want straight shooters, and they want you to call people out on the facts when the facts are the facts.
David Muir -
Our deepest wishes are whispers of our authentic selves. We must learn to respect them. We must learn to listen.
Sarah Ban Breathnach -
It sounds maybe a little old fashioned, but the parts I want to play and I do play, you don't want to inject too much of your own personality. What you sacrifice then is a slight mystery.
Andrew Scott -
It's nice to know that people are so interested in my life. But I have never shared anything with the media. I like to keep quiet.
Krystle D'Souza -
There is nothing so unreasonable as infancy, excepting the maturer stages of life.
Jean Ingelow -
Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.
John Shelby Spong