John Shelby Spong Quotes
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The decathlon includes ten separate events and they all matter. You can't work on just one of them.
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Time has lost all meaning in that nightmare alley of the Western world known as the American mind.
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In bookstores, my stuff is usually filed in the out-of-the-way, additional interest sections.
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Darling, when you're as old as I am, you cherish the very few musicals that have come your way that you know are great classics. You become their guardian.
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I'm not the type of person that is forced.
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I don't have time to listen to anybody's music. I'm making it, you know.
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I love fire. As a child I loved setting light to things. I'd always be in the forest putting matches to pieces of wood. I've always regarded fire as my friend.
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Forty percent of my portfolio is in the U.S. In the rest of the world, most of the places I invest in or invested in are Brazil, Russia, Germany with a little bit of Turkey, China, India, France and Israel sprinkled in there.
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Curiosity does, no less than devotion, pilgrims make.
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'The Voice' is built on positivity. Once we started filming, I knew that America was really going to love it.
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We hear of the wealth of nations, of the powers of production, of the demand and supply of markets, and we forget that these words mean no more, if they mean any thing, then the happiness, and the labor, and the necessities of men.
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I feel as if I've been fairly successful with maintaining a cohesive tone between the work I make as a photographer and as a director.
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Well, I'm not going to sit here and pretend that I haven't been a rogue most of my life.
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I don't have time to think about age. There are so many things to do.
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We tell applicants, 'If you don't intend to be here for life, you needn't apply.'
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I worry about everything in the world, and it's just too much for anybody to think about, so I have my art as my consolation.
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Korean students are hard working, talented, and they do what they need to do. They succeed in exams. They are highly motivated to succeed in tests.
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I didn't hang around films. I don't know if I'd ever seen Hitchcock's The Lady Vanishes.
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I look like a quarry someone has dynamited.
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Mom always told us to wear pretty, matching underwear.
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Many of the birds Audubon painted are now extinct, and still we go on killing them, more or less casually, with our pesticides and wires and machinery.
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I never knew that "Hank Zipzer" would happen in my life. It is one of the greatest things. It is like a gift from God.
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As you look back in history, we [the United States] have done wonderful things, the Marshal Plan is the most obvious. After World War II, we spent billions of dollars to rebuild Europe or at least part of Europe after the devastation of World War II. We did it out of charity, but we also did it to keep the Russians from getting deeply into Europe.
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I find that children have very little trouble understanding non-literal stories.
