John Shelby Spong Quotes
I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.
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People said, 'How could you walk away from music?' But being a dad - there's nothing that can touch that.
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I can work in films as long as the story doesn't have a realistic nature. If I'm working with an allegory, a fantasy, it can be developed in synthetic terms.
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You know who we hear about all the rappers from? The bus drivers.
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I try to give the appearance that I have it all together and that I know what I'm talking about, but at the end of the day, I think I might be full of crap.
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What the mind of man can conceive and believe, it can achieve.
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Unfortunately, the Senate Democrats have become an extreme party. They have become a party that has abdicated their responsibilities. Under Harry Reid and the Senate Democrats, we have a do-nothing Senate.
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Agriculture is a business that has been up to its bib overalls in politics since the first Thanksgiving dinner kickback to the Indians for subsidizing Pilgrim maize production with fish head fertilizer grants.
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It is from books that wise people derive consolation in the troubles of life.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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Many a poor soul has had to suffer from the weight of the debts on him, finding no rest or peace after death.
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If we mean to have heroes, statesmen and philosophers, we should have learned women.
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That's the way it is with poetry: When it is incomprehensible it seems profound, and when you understand it, it is only ridiculous.
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It's not healthy to be jealous.
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I feel very competitive with Robert Morse off-set. We often duke it out. He always wins.
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I stayed in the ghetto. Then I stayed in condos, then I stayed in penthouses, and then I stayed in mansions.
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But it's fun to be something, have that, and you don't have to be real. It's like, comedians. They go on and they're doing all these jokes. I would be like that if I were more awake.
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In 2010, I was doing pretty well. I was going to go to graduate school.
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I respond to a part just intuitively when I read a script.
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There's this idea that Hollywood sells over and over again: 'If I just looked more like this, I'd be accepted.'
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I play 'Just Dance' all the time - actually my girlfriends and I have slumber parties where we actually do this on a monthly basis and make total fools of ourselves.
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The long-term policies that will be most effective all have to do with investment: investing in ourselves, investing in opportunities, creating good schools, and creating situations where people can acquire skills that enable them to be successful.
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Faith opens our hearts for the entrance of the holy. It is almost as though God were thinking for us.
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If God were to appear in my room, obviously I would be in awe, but I don't think I would be humble. I might cry, but I think he would dig me like crazy.
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I live on the other side of Copernicus and Galileo; I can no longer conceive of God as sort of above the sky, looking down and keeping record books.
