K. J. Bishop Quotes
You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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I feel like I'm going backwards, actually, as I get older. I'm regressing. I feel more and more like a kid, which is kind of a fun feeling.
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One of the big things I've learned is that there's an advantage to regular low-intensity activity.
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I think one of the great things about being a musician is that you never stop learning.
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You have to love what you do to want to do it everyday.
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I would literally have to go meet people so they could see I didn't have big red hair and wear high heels constantly. It was just really ingrained in people.
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The only positive finding which could be drawn from the first series, was the conclusion that the relationships obviously had a more complicated lay-out than had been thought, for the effects were so varied that no obedience to any law could be discovered.
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What I am going to tell you is this: Although it is commonly believed that the War on Terrorism is a noble effort to defend freedom, in reality, it has little to do with terrorism and even less to do with the defense of freedom.
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I tend to like simple music. And clever, succinct lyrics. Songs that don't try to be more than they need to to be effective, to stir up something emotionally within you.
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I hope that none of the countries in the Middle East are planning anything but the peaceful utilization of nuclear energy.
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I love 'Strange Brew'. I quote that movie all the time, and no one knows what I'm talking about.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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My work always presents problems in our society. Those problems may be anything from injustice to freedom, and everything related to humanity.
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I never predicted that I'd be a comedian, but it was something that came so naturally to me. I just felt good doing it.
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It's not the name that makes the player. It's the player.
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There has been no persecution I have not tasted, no oppression I have not suffered. I neither care for Paradise nor fear Hell. If I see my nation's belief secured, I will not even care about burning in Hell, for while my body is burning, my heart will be as if in a rose garden.
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The mode by which the inevitable is reached is effort.
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When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.
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Writing for children hadn't occurred to me when I was younger, but nine years of teaching in the upper elementary grades had given me a deep appreciation of the gifts and graces that are specific to individuals with 10 or 11 years of experience as human beings.
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It seems to me an indictment of the Republican Party that if you talk about issues of poverty and upward mobility, people assume you're a Democrat.
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One of my problems is I'm not really sure if I slot into rock or not. I've always tried to combine world music, folk, jazz, blues and rock, and have done since Traffic.
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My job is to analyze conversations and discover why communications fail.
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You're doing it again. Using reason to argue faith. Can't be done. Like playing croquet with a crochet hook. Sounds something like the right tool for the job, but isn't.
