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 -
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 -
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
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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 -
Every European goes on the streets and sees medieval churches. Not if you live in Indianapolis. The most exciting letters I received were from people in places like that.
Umberto Eco
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I think most writers will say that at the start of each book they think, 'I'm not sure I can do this.' But eventually, you reach a magical point where the story suddenly becomes real to you, and you become totally invested in it.
K. A. Applegate -
When one paints an ideal, one does not need to limit one's imagination.
Ellen Key -
I love being a Go-Go. It definitely has its ups and downs, and we have a very intense energy with each other.
Jane Wiedlin -
There's good and bad in everybody. I wasn't looking for the good, or looking for the bad. This is a man who signed his pact with the devil 20 years ago, and he's learned to live with it. He's tried to protect his family from it.
Sam Mendes -
'Gatekeeper' was sort of my first attempt to put a little bit of a frame and boundaries around songwriting, and try to figure out a way to approach it that had a sort of end result in mind. I haven't written many like that.
Feist -
Whatever diminishes life is evil, and whatever enhances life is good.
John Shelby Spong