Quentin S. Crisp Quotes
There's a possible qualification I can make here about a non-pantheist god that is in some way tenable, and that is the idea of a god that has in some way discharged the universe from its own substance (I associate this with the word 'tzimtzum'), possibly even by a form of suicide - a suicide that might have been the Big Bang.
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My sense of religion is Einstein's sense of relativity. I don't believe in God. I believe that energy never dies. So the possibility exists that you might be breathing in some other form of Moses or Buddha or Muhammad or Bobby Kennedy or Roosevelt or Martin Luther King or Jesus.
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I loved the glamour and excitement of the games and, in particular, knowing the names of each and every one of the referees - that's because my mom, a former basketball player, would yell at them from our front-row seats for making bad calls!
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I don't want to say anything because I know I am unable to protect you from the harm that I see.
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With the coaches, you don't want to hear everybody saying, 'Move over! Back up! Do this!' Let's find out what the players know.
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I don't think you should exploit your own pain.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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Some writers are so enthralled by ideas (one thinks of Doris Lessing) that their characters become debaters, and their fables approach allegory.
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Social Security is too vital to be lumped into backroom budget talks where the views of ordinary Americans risk going unheard.
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At some point in your life, if you're lucky, you get to design the way in which things evolve.
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To me, a cat is an easy pet, they don't need any spoiling or looking after.
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The chemistry that you get from living with your band and creating music and recording with your band translates to the stage.
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To this day, most people think of me as the fastest human. They don't really think me as a long jumper, although that's the event I had more success in.
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I never had little brothers, so I was totally not used to hearing a lot of cussing at a young age! I learned what 'pull my finger' meant the hard way.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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He suffered from paralysis by analysis.
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In my humble opinion, change is stupid.
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Now, we occupy a lowly position, both in space and rank in comparison with the heavenly sphere, and the Almighty is Most High not in space, but with respect to absolute existence, greatness and power.
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I think the 19th century is an extraordinary period with a welling up of creativity and all kinds of experimentation and exploration going on at least until 1940.
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I mean, m-m-m-my you're like pelican fly
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People don't realize, you know, the Civil War, if you think about it, why?
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And so there is no God but has been in the loins of past gods.
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If an honest man is the noblest work of God, then Mr. Lincoln's title to high nobility is clear and unquestioned.
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I know that I received so much help from God to become that kind of person that I wanted to be. That's honestly the message that I think is in a lot of my songs.
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There's a possible qualification I can make here about a non-pantheist god that is in some way tenable, and that is the idea of a god that has in some way discharged the universe from its own substance (I associate this with the word 'tzimtzum'), possibly even by a form of suicide - a suicide that might have been the Big Bang.
