John Shelby Spong Quotes
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As I grow older I spend more time with my wife, and gradually my interest in the woman's world is growing.
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Give me golf clubs, fresh air and a beautiful partner, and you can keep the clubs and the fresh air.
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In private, I'm a hippie who follows Buddhism, does yoga, meditates and loves to dance wildly.
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I'd love to return to theater.
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The selfie phenomenon is enormous, and it's hilarious. Especially as Australians, because we kind of hate people that love themselves, but that's all flipping on its head now, and we're happy to love ourselves.
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The only model to follow is pure Islam.
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When defeat comes, accept it as a signal that your plans are not sound, rebuild those plans, and set sail once more toward your coveted goal.
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Unborn children do not have a voice, but they are young members of the human family. It is time to look at the unborn child, and recognize that it is really a young human, who can feel pain and should be treated with care.
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Elementary considerations led me to the conclusion that a medium, composed of layers of different dielectric constants, must behave as a uniaxial crystal if it is assumed that the layer thicknesses are only a fraction of a wave-length.
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Girls are the best readers in the world. Reading is really a way of kind of escaping so deeply into yourself and pursuing your own thoughts within the construct of a story.
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I'm a novelist from the Haisla and Heiltsuk First Nations of British Columbia, both small coastal reserves hugging the rugged shores of the west coast.
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Attention, it just comes and goes. Since we don't have a major label, it's like, what are we gonna do next? You have to make your own decisions.
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To sleep around is absolutely wrong for a woman; it's degrading and it completely ruins her personality. Sooner or later it will destroy all that is feminine and beautiful and idealistic in her.
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My father always taught by telling stories about his experiences. His lessons were about morality and art and what insects and birds and human beings had in common. He told me what it meant to be a man and to be a Black man. He taught me about love and responsibility, about beauty, and how to make gumbo.
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I've always been terrible on regular sitcoms with lots of jokes. I don't know how to tell jokes.
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I think I look great in green, and I'm going to start wearing more green.
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I don't know that I appreciate things more because of how I grew up, but I am very realistic with what I expect out of people and what they expect out of me.
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I've always wanted to do a shoot with snakes - big snakes, like pythons.
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From being a patriotic myth, the Russian people have become an awful reality.
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One doesn't have to get anywhere in a marriage. It's not a public conveyance.
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Building a home for neglected senior citizens is my long time dream.
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I grew up watching cinema in my country that wasn't telling stories about us, and we had to find a way to connect, and our references, our role models had nothing to do with us. And I'm so glad that it's changing.
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Most people go through their whole lives without killing anybody. False argument.
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Religion is a mixed blessing.
