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 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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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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If you never give up, you'll be successful.
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But we cannot rely on foreign help indefinitely.
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I'm so proud of Maryland's firefighters, risking their lives to protect others, but we need to protect our protectors with the best equipment training and resources.
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This was something I always dreamed and wanted to be part of, when women's wrestling was freakin' cool, and now it is.
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The only things I make money on are speeches and books.
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We Latin women are liberated from the neck up, not the neck down.
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I'm always at the opposite end of the spectrum, the opposite of hipster culture, and I enjoy that.
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A new regime would have become the United States’ responsibility. Conceivably, this could have led the United States into a more or less permanent occupation of a country that could not govern itself, but where the rule of a foreign occupier would be increasingly resented.
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My desire to live is as intense as ever, and though my heart is broken, hearts are made to be broken: that is why God sends sorrow into the world.
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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.
