Stephen Cole Kleene Quotes
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I worked at the American Conservatory Theater in San Francisco, lived there for three years, and lived in Baltimore for 12 years.
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'I can't get no satisfaction,' in political terms, has haunted Hungarian politics for 20 years.
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Forgiveness is a big part of - especially post-civil rights movement - is a big part of African-American Christianity, and I wasn't raised within the Christian church; I wasn't raised within any church.
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I was baptized a Baptist, but I'm just Christian, as far as I'm concerned. I could go in any church, doesn't matter if it's Baptist, Protestant, Episcopal, or Catholic.
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It takes 20 years to make an overnight success.
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Where I'm from, you're a square if you go to church or if you decide to read the Koran or Bible.
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I started submitting stories for publication when I was about 15, but it was many years before I sold anything. I don't make my living writing science fiction, so in that sense, I'm still not a pro.
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I think I've become more modest as the years have gone on.
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In Montreal, I kept thinking, 'Pay attention: this is the Olympics! It only happens once every four years!'
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The imminent demise of the church has been predicted since the middle of the 18th century. This is the regular secular mantra if churchgoing declines. I could take you to plenty of churches that are full to bursting and new churches being built.
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When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.
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We are so indebted to our ancestors, musically speaking, that they have left us 400 years of music.
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Over the years the political establishment has frowned if a mainstream politician mentions marriage.
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I became a co-chair of the Congressional Study Group from Germany several years ago with the expressed purpose of helping increase aid to Holocaust survivors.
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I made a living being a background singer for years.
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For 50 years my father worked for the railroad.
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I don't go to church any more, but I think that Catholicism is rather like the brand they use on cattle: I feel so formed in that Catholic mould that I don't think I could adopt any other form of spirituality. I still get feelings of consolation about churches.
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I read a lot on the subject and had many conversations, and I have come to the conclusion that the Catholic Church is a force for evil.
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Saw a wedding in the church. It was strange to see what delight we married people have to see these poor fools decoyed into our condition.
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Sex is not some sort of pristine, reverent ritual. You want reverent and pristine, go to church.
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If the destination is heaven, why do we scramble to be first in line for hell?
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Even under the best of circumstances, there's just something so damn tragic about growing up.
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A poem generated by its own laws may be unrealized and bad in terms of so-called objective principles of taste, judgement, deduction.
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It wasn't until my second year that I got to actually work with Church.
