John Shelby Spong Quotes
My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
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But if you want to be in a band and write music, then you should just be in a band and write music.
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I always loved cars. I don't know why, I can't explain it to you. It has always been with me.
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I'm a Muslim. I don't try to hide it. I'm also a girl who loves music.
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I had two sisters carried away in a chain-gang - one of them left two children. We were always uneasy.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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I'm a sort of nuts-and-bolts guy. I'm into turning wrenches and swinging a hammer and wrenching on cars.
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What is necessary to change a person is to change his awareness of himself.
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What I'm interested in is the fascinating image of young leaders... you know, young people leading in different fields. You see athletes and people in gymnastics, where the requirement is that you are supple and very, very young... 11... and by the time you're 14, you're already over the hill.
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My mother didn't set out to surround us with white students or colleagues. My mother just sought a quality education. People have these expectations of who they think you should be. And I say it's because they don't really understand Malcolm X - or his wife.
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Nobody else is stupid enough to get themselves into the straits that I get into.
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This is my ultimate fantasy: watching QVC with a credit card while making love and eating at the same time.
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I think Ali was a fan of mine, even though he never said it. A lot of fighters thought I was pretty good. Nobody every really spoke different on that. But a lot of fighters thought I was good so.
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Well, for us, in history where goodness is a rare pearl, he who was good almost takes precedence over he who was great.
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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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We will stand by the Paris climate deal.
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But you can make good radio, interesting radio, great radio even, without an urgent question, a burning issue at stake.
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I'm a very lucky girl.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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I listen to music almost any time I'm not sleeping, 'hanging out' with specific people, or showering.
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Sweet the rose which lives in Heaven, Although on earth ’tis planted, Where its honours blow, While by earth’s slaves the leaves are riven Which die the while they glow.
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I partly know why I have not led a perfect life like other believers. But I avow to my Lord, and I do not lie, that from the time when I first knew him, the love of God and the fear of him has grown in me from my youth so that I have, by the power of God, always till now kept the faith.
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When I grew up, we went to Coney Island and Central Park. We'd find our way to the water and watch the fireworks.
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My basis of morality is this: does this action enhance life, or does it denigrate life? Does it build up or does it tear down?
