Stephen Carter Quotes

We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

Stephen Carter

• Religious
• Belief
• Credit
• Adults
• Ashamed

• Previous
• Next

Quotes to Explore

• Music is always there, but if you're asking me my first love, it's film.

  

  O'Shea Jackson, Jr.
  • Music
  • Love
  • Film

• I can't change everything by myself but I can be one of the people who are trying to change the situation.

  

  Haile Gebrselassie
  • People
  • Trying
  • Change

• I often get mistaken for Dumbledore. One wizard is very much like another.

  

  Ian Mckellen
  • Like
  • Often
  • Wizard

• If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.

  

  Fedor Emelianenko
  • People
  • Think
  • Weakness

• The stakes are high on every film now because there's the opening weekend. The first week is extremely crucial; increasingly, films are being judged in terms of opening day, opening weekend, then first week. People are going berserk promoting their films.

  

  Vidya Balan
  • People
  • High
  • Day

• You can't, no matter what anyone says, build a movie around someone.

  

  Campbell Scott
  • Movie
  • You
  • Matter

• If there is anything in the universe that can't stand discussion, let it crack.

  

  Wendell Phillips
  • Universe
  • Anything
  • Stand

• Romy and I, we're learning how to share the xx with people who aren't in the xx.

  

  Oliver Sim The xx
  • People
  • Learning
  • Share

• I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.

  

  Patch Adams
  • Important
  • War
  • Taken

• There was no end to the ways in which nice things are nicer than nasty ones.

  

  Kingsley Amis
  • Nice
  • Nasty

• The digital revolution has disrupted most traditional media: newspapers, magazines, books, record companies, radio.

  

  Ken Auletta
  • Revolution

• After holding hearings to get input from Missourians, I led the fight to pass legislation that protects seniors from predatory lending in the mortgage industry. I stood up against efforts that would make it harder for seniors to vote, and battled telemarketers bent on defrauding seniors.

  

  Claire McCaskill
  • Up

• My biggest fear as a fighter is to be knocked out in front of millions of people. But after it actually happened, there's this calmness about you that says everything is OK.

  

  Eddie Alvarez
  • People
  • Fear

• It's a really exciting thing to collaborate with production designers, cinematographers and gaffers and costume designers and editors and composers.

  

  Jason Bateman

• In effect, there has been a significant shortfall in the overall amount of monetary policy stimulus since early 2009.

  

  Janet Yellen

• It's like Jordan Spieth and Rory McIlroy had a baby, and I was it. I've got Rory's length, and I'm hoping that I've got Jordan's touch.

  

  Jason Day
  • Baby

• Artists are just children who refuse to put down their crayons.

  

  Al Hirschfeld
  • Children

• He steps on stage and draws the sword of rhetoric, and when he is through, someone is lying wounded and thousands of others are either angry or consoled.

  

  Pete Hamill
  • Angry

• I always thought that I might retire from any form of sexuality by the age of 40 and just become a dignified older person.

  

  Jarvis Cocker Pulp
  • Age

• Our march to freedom is irreversible. We must not allow fear to stand in our way. Universal suffrage on a common voters' roll in a united, democratic and non-racial South Africa is the only way to peace and racial harmony.

  

  Nelson Mandela
  • Freedom
  • Fear
  • Peace

• At the end, we're kind of observers - creative people, I mean. I feel like an observer, and I'm pretty much able to step out of things and see how things are playing out.

  

  Nick Cave The Birthday Party
  • People
  • Creative
  • Observers

• Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we're hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.

  

  E. O. Wilson
  • Religious
  • Belief
  • Form

• Whether one believes or not, religion is as real a force in the life of the world as economics or politics, and it demands fair-minded attention. Even if you think the entire religious enterprise is at best misguided and at worst counterproductive, it remains vital, inspiring great good and, sometimes, great evil.

  

  Jon Meacham
  • Life
  • World
  • Good

• We do not credit to the ideal of religious freedom when we talk as though religious belief is something of which public-spirited adults should be ashamed.

  

  Stephen Carter
  • Religious
  • Belief
  • Credit