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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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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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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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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The perceptive act is a reaction of the mind upon the object of which it is the perception.
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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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The neck on which diamonds might have worthily sparkled, will look less tempting when the biting winter has hung icicles there for gems.
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Sell a country?! Why not sell the air, the great sea, as well as the earth? Did not the Great Spirit make them all for the use of his children?
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You can learn something about a person by the company she keeps.
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Because Republicans have no ideas, they want to turn elections into the battle of dollars.
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There are people who are born deaf and grow up deaf who don't speak at all, and some of them have told me that they resent a little bit that I do speak. But, you know, I have to be myself. I have to do what I'm comfortable doing.
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People in my novels always have terrible problems. If they are not terrible, I make them more terrible.
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Our generation's grown up with the Internet, so it's an extension of our social lives; it's an extension of us. It makes perfect sense for me to use that medium.
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I've learned a lot about myself. Most of it is all right. When I add up the pluses and subtract the minuses, I still come out pretty well.
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All human action is expressive; a gesture is an intentionally expressive action. All art is expressive - of its author and of the situation in which he works - but some art is intended to move us through visual gestures that transmit, and perhaps give release to, emotions and emotionally charged messages. Such art is expressionist.
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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?
