Francis Thompson Quotes
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A beautiful print is a thing in itself, not just a halfway house on the way to the page.
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When you take risks and things don't go your way, you can be heavily criticised by the media.
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When I think about atheist friends, including my father, they seem to me like people who have no ear for music, or who have never been in love.
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A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.
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Theist and atheist: the fight between them is as to whether God shall be called God or shall have some other name.
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A Buddhist or a good atheist is as acceptable to God as a good Catholic.
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You might say I was a passive atheist through my teenage years.
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I want three words: Woman, Atheist, Anarchist. That's me.
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Now, I'm an atheist. I really don't believe for a moment that our moral sense comes from a god.
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If I get to Heaven, which I very much doubt, I will ask of God just one thing, and that is to send Shakespeare back down to earth, and make him sit a University of Madras examination in Shakespeare, just for the pleasure of watching him failing the exam.
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Government has no right to hurt the hair of an Atheist for his Opinions. Let him have a care of his Practices.
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I consider myself spiritual and I'm married to a man who is both an atheist and a humanist, and my kids have been raised with the traditions of different religions, but they do not go to church or temple. My feeling is that everyone should be able to believe what they want or need to believe.
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If you looked at my iPod, you would get a trip out of all the different music, from the real heavy metal to bluegrass to classical.
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What always made me proud - almost blushing with pride - is that Francis Coppola, Martin Scorsese, Steven Spielberg all told me that 'The Conformist' is their first modern influence.
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I went on a Buddha jag. I read 'Confession of a Buddhist Atheist' by Stephen Batchelor and Karen Armstrong's biography of Buddha, which is a great book.
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'Born Free' was the first film I ever saw. I just fell in love with the idea of people having that bond with a wild animal.
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An atheist is a man who has no invisible means of support.
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Like, my feelings on religion are starting to morph. I'm still very much an atheist, except that I don't necessarily see religion as being a bad thing. So, that's a weird thing that I'm struggling with that seems to be offending both atheists and people that are religious.
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I'm atheist because religion is a crutch, and only the crippled need crutches. I can get around perfectly well on my own two feet, and so can everyone else with a backbone and a grain of common sense.
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For me, there are always things to learn. It's like the next movie is going to be the good one, you know.
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I've prided myself on being in excellent condition-as good as any man in my profession. Now this doesn't come from sitting around on your rear end. This comes from hard, hard work.
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Love is what we aspire to most in our lives.
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I wish I was Freddie Mercury, straight up.
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An atheist is a man who believes himself an accident.
