John Shelby Spong Quotes
A lot of people hear me attacking their certainty. I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm interested in penetrating the meaning of certainty.John Shelby Spong
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On my mother's side, I'm English, so that's where the freckles come from. On my father's side, I'm German, and he has the fantastic olive hues... I was given mum's skin, whereas my brothers and sisters were given my dad's skin. I do tan up quite well, but it takes me a bit longer.
Dan Feuerriegel -
Produce great men, the rest follows.
Walt Whitman -
There is so much to do in my house, in every little corner. It's just like anybody, it's like one step at a time. I try to decorate one space and a pipe breaks or whatever - you know how it is.
Fergie The Black Eyed Peas -
I believe in the power of intention to change the landscape of our society - and it is my intention to live an authentic life of compassion and integrity and action. Jamey Rodemeyer's life changed mine.
Zachary Quinto -
She knew what all smart women knew: Laughter made you live better and longer.
Gail Parent -
My favorite thing to do in this world is to be on the ice playing hockey and try to entertain fans and bring wins to the Chicago Blackhawks.
Patrick Kane
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More than anything for me, making music is about taking nothing and making something.
K. Flay -
If the artists would just keep hammering away - unify, stick together - then music will become the king again, which is what it should be.
Garth Brooks -
My dad was really complex, and I was raised by that. My mom is really bright - very book bright - and so those things collide... I learned that I could put all of that stuff together in the world of acting, and I could make a dollar at it.
Omari Hardwick -
I like to relate to my kids as they are. I enjoy spending that time with them. I see that my girls are so completely different and different from me, too.
Gayle Forman -
I want to make music that I like; not something that I have to make because I think it's going to sell.
Benjamin Hammond "Ben" Haggerty -
If you're a basketball player, you've got to shoot.
Oscar Robertson
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I'm happy. I give thanks every morning that I can get up, that I still have my husband with me. I'm extremely grateful. After all, how many 93-year-old cover girls do you know?
Iris Apfel -
It's the irrational things that interest me.
Harrison Birtwistle -
As a race, the Negroes are not lazy.
W. E. B. Du Bois -
It's a shallow life that doesn't give a person a few scars.
Garrison Keillor -
The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
Zac Brown Band -
In men's sports, people criticize coaches and managers all the time, call out teammates, too, and it's not that huge of a deal. Often, the guy speaking out is even lauded for having the courage to tell the truth. When it happens in women's sports, though, it always seems to be viewed as a nasty, claws-out cat fight.
Carli Lloyd
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Nevertheless most of the evergreen forests of the north must always remain the home of wild animals and trappers, a backward region in which it is easy for a great fur company to maintain a practical monopoly.
Ellsworth Huntington -
I know that I came into the world with what I call 'big dharma' - with a blueprint to teach self-reliance and a positive loving approach to large numbers of people all over the globe. I am ever so grateful for the circumstances of my life that allowed me to be pretty much left alone and to develop as I was so intended in this incarnation.
Wayne Dyer -
Even the people I surround myself with... are wiser, a little bit older than me, where before, all my boyfriends were younger.
Kim Kardashian -
I do know that country music is driven by the songs. I think there's probably a core of what the material is about, which is family and love and the ups and downs of life, and I think that resonates with people.
Jimi Westbrook Little Big Town -
It's not healthy for patents to be used to stop other people from doing business.
Jerry Yang -
A lot of people hear me attacking their certainty. I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm interested in penetrating the meaning of certainty.
John Shelby Spong