John Shelby Spong Quotes
There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of this book is not a single individual, but is at least three different writers/editors, who did their layered work over a period of 25 to 30 years.
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We take what's shown on television as the truth, and it isn't. News isn't even the truth on television. If you look up the definition of what news is, it isn't that what we're watching on the new - it's entertainment.
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I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.
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I am more afraid of those who are terrified of the devil than I am of the devil himself.
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I'd want to collaborate with Eminem, of all people. Maybe even Lauryn Hill.
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Any time Khaled comes to your video, it just steps it up that much more. He's so fun; people love him.
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I started acting when I was 5 years old. And I was pretty well known for a while. Your self-esteem and your identity start to become wrapped up in that celebrity, and when that starts to fade away, your self-esteem and your identity start to fade away with it.
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Virtual reality is a tough sell for a software developer. They have to convince investors that not only are they going to build a good game, which is what they normally have to do, they have to convince them that it's going to be a good game and that virtual reality will be successful.
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That element of surprise is what I look for when I am writing. It is my way of judging what I am doing - which is never an easy thing to do.
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Whatever I think the song sounds like is what I'll name it. It's a feeling thing; it's not logical at all.
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Remember, the man who is poor is not the man that has no money, but one without a dream. They are suffering that have no dream. They are poor that have no dream.
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I did improv for about 10 years professionally, and before that, I had done it in high school as part of an improv team. It was definitely a big part of my upbringing.
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Racism is everywhere - the older generations in Malaysia still say things like, 'She's darker-skinned; maybe don't marry her,' and it's very judgmental. A lot of girls do try to get fairness cream to lighten their skin, and I'm against all of that.
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It's important to me that I look good on television because, let's face it, I'm single, and you want somebody to watch the show and fall in love with you.
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I've stolen a couple of hearts and they are in my private collection!
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It's called 'I Wanna Thank You,' and I'm encouraging everybody out there to blog, Tweet, Facebook, anything about it. Let's sign a petition. The petition is called 'Busta Rhymes Make 'I Wanna Thank You' Your First Single.'
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I never have been a coder, outside of when I was twelve or something, like on the Atari 1200 XP or whatever I had.
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I had a chance to do 'Ant-Man' in 2011.
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Establishing an equilibrium between the Islam of truth and Islam as an identity is one of the most difficult tasks of religious intellectuals.
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Dude, everybody wants to be Andre 3000. He's got abs for days. How does that guy get so ripped?
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Why can't a woman be more like a dog, huh? So sweet, loving, attentive.
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Each justice hires their own clerks, and applications are made individually to the justices. It isn't a group decision.
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Whatever its imagined virtues, faith is the enemy of open and honest inquiry. Remaining open to the powers of conversation - to new evidence and better arguments - is not only essential for rationality. It is essential for love.
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Pascal is called the founder of modern probability theory. He earns this title not only for the familiar correspondence with Fermat on games of chance, but also for his conception of decision theory, and because he was an instrument in the demolition of probabilism, a doctrine which would have precluded rational probability theory.
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There is no way that the Fourth Gospel was written by John Zebedee or by any of the disciples of Jesus. The author of this book is not a single individual, but is at least three different writers/editors, who did their layered work over a period of 25 to 30 years.
