E. J. Dionne Quotes
At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.
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I live in southern Appalachia, so I'm surrounded by people who work very hard for barely a living wage. It's particularly painful that people are working the farms their parents and grandparents worked but aren't living nearly as well.
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When history is erased, people's moral values are also erased.
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Whatever God or whatever higher power you believe in, they brought us to this earth in a perfect way, and you have to learn to love yourself. Otherwise, it's an exhausting way to be.
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The collusion of big business, big labor, and big government threaten the spirit of small business that makes America great.
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I want to entertain people, but with some substance.
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I made my parents crazy. As a kid, I redecorated my bedroom every month. I would literally save my allowance and go buy things.
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If I should say anything that is not in conformity with what is held by the Holy Roman Catholic Church, it will be through ignorance and not through malice. This may be taken as certain, and also that, through God's goodness, I am, and shall always be, as I always have been, subject to her.
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Skysurfing is skydiving with a board on the feet. You can imagine with this big surface of a skysurfing board, there is a lot of force, a lot of power. Of course, I can use this power, for example, for nice spinning - we call it 'helicopter moves.'
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One morning I woke up and was plunged into psychological shock. I had forgotten I was free.
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Writing is only the frosting on my cake. I'm whole without it.
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I knew that the artists that I loved the most had something about them that was very unfiltered and very rough.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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I was completely surrounded by religion from a young time. I was taught by my father. I engaged in discussions with him and many of these scholars who visited and came around the dining table, the lunch table, and attended many lectures with my dad. And so I learned the apprentice way.
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I'm blonde and tanned and normal-sized! I'm sweet, shy, funny, have a big heart and I'm nice - and I like to eat.
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The Gospel itself is angular. It always has been. It always conflicts. It always challenges every generation. It challenges different generations in different ways.
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By constant contemplation of excellence, we clear our selfhood of all dross and impurities.
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I never want to have to ask my husband for money. Never! That's incomprehensible to me. Would he have preferred that I change my name? Probably. But that's OK!
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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His claim to his home is deep, but there are too many ghosts. He must absorb without being absorbed.
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That's one thing about fiction: you can make the world be the way you think it should be.
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So many of my thoughts and feelings are shared by the English that England has turned into a second native land of the mind for me.
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Je ne sais pas de lecture plus facile, plus attrayante, plus douce que celle d'un catalogue.
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I eat everything I want on Christmas day. I really don't watch what I eat. It's not like you have Christmas every day!
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At the heart of my argument is the view that religious faith, far from being inevitably on the side of the status quo, should on principle hold this world to higher standards.
