John Shelby Spong Quotes
You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.
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I'm just a black hole for stuff. No one should ever hand me anything, because I get so easily distracted. I'll be like, 'Oh, look, something shiny!' I'm glad I never learned how to drive. I would be really dangerous.
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I really don't care if people know who I am or what's said about me.
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It's a trifle hard to surprise yourself with a story you've written.
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I'd always put on little shows at home, but when I was 11, I did a community event in Woodford, where anyone could go. You had three days of vocal training and performed your song at the end. I sang 'I Say a Little Prayer.' It's a tough song to sing but they gave me the confidence to go for it and belt it out.
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Some talk shows have become so exploitive and tabloid, I wonder if I can believe some of their guests. Where do they find these guests, and why do they deserve air time?
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And in the Second World War, you didn't just read about it in the newspapers because you weren't allowed to read it in the newspapers. It was all censored, you know? So nobody knew what we were doing.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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I'm associated with gospel music in the minds of millions of people.
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We make assumptions: nurses should be nice, teachers should be good. But everyone has a dark side, some darker than others.
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I was real into Devo, Pavement, Captain Beefheart, and the Jon Spencer Blues Explosion.
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I just always wanted to be left alone to go into a creative space.
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After the 9/11 incidents, Islam has become a big question mark among westerners, especially Americans. The mass media constantly raise the issue of relationship between Islam and terrorism.
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Making music is fantastic.
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Contemplation is a luxury of the middle class, the very rich.
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It's very difficult for my body to recover after workouts now that I'm older, so we have to keep them short, which means they're extremely difficult and intense. It sucks.
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In the morning a man walks with his whole body; in the evening, only with his legs.
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I did five seasons of 'Baywatch,' and I did four seasons of 'VIP.' I've been around awhile.
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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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Fundamentalists are crazy. They're the real world equivalent to the evil geniuses of our spy fiction and our superhero comics. They want to mold the world into a specific shape that they really believe in, and if you don't believe in that, if you can't relate to that, it just seems crazy.
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Happiness does not lie in happiness, but in the achievement of it.
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Without looking through the window, you can see Heaven's Way.
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Growing up, I would have to watch the other children and learn from my mistakes. I would have to push myself to overcome the things most people don't have to think about. Brushing my teeth was very difficult because of the noise of the brush.
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You know, a lot of people are just interested in, in building a company so they can make money and get out.
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You can't have a world where 50 percent of the people are dieting and 50 percent of the people are starving if you want stability.
