J. Gordon Melton Quotes
Ex-members, even those with righteous complaints, tend to reconstruct their experiences — ambiguous situations at worst — into totally negative encounters. They tend to demonize the leaders and turn the members into zombielike followers. Harmless comments are recast into sinister threats, group jargon into conspirational fantasies.J. Gordon Melton
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I eat lots of vegetables and green juices.
Venus Williams -
I was raised by very traditional Southern parents with Southern manners. You don't air your dirty laundry to people that aren't your family or your friends. Why would I ever want to portray myself as anything other than together?
Dakota Fanning -
I find skydiving really hard. I broke my back while skydiving when I was in the military, and for 18 months all my nightmares were about falling.
Bear Grylls -
There are not many companies in China that dare to say in public, 'We don't offer bribes', or companies that operate only by market rules.
Wang Jianlin -
I'm trying to make really flawed characters that have got redeeming features so people can say, 'I don't really like that character, but I can understand a bit where they've come from.'
Irvine Welsh -
The stadiums are like none I've ever seen. I think there must have been some strong competition nationally between Korea and Japan to make the best facilities because they are very well designed.
Lamar Hunt
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About my books, that's all that I think the public has, in its normal way, to know. My private life is, by definition, private.
Patrick O'Brian -
Ya gots to work with what you gots to work with.
Stevie Wonder -
There is a difference when you work with actors who have worked on the stage. When we're out there in front of an audience eight times a week, you can't do it on your own.
Karen Allen -
As a business owner or manager, you know that hiring the wrong person is the most costly mistake you can make.
Brian Tracy -
I don´t know where I´m going, only God knows where I´ve been.
Jon Bon Jovi -
Who needs make-believe monsters when there are so many real ones.
Jennifer Donnelly
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Ah! never shall the land forget.
William Cullen Bryant -
Noble passions are like vices: the more they are satisfied, the greater they grow, Mothers and gamblers are insatiable.
Honore de Balzac -
I appreciate actors who work very hard to get at the truth of the character they're playing. That speaks to me, and I try to protect that process because I value the focus and intention behind it.
Marc Platt -
These warm lovers of life, born under dancing stars, how without them was life tolerable for those, such as himself, whose bias was towards sadness, their stars cloud-hidden when their spirits woke to life....In this world, surely, there should always be a mating between the lovers of life and the endurers of it, in couples they should find a causeway for their feet and walk it together, the star-shine of the one comforting the darkness of the other.
Elizabeth Goudge -
After years in white theaters I dreaded working in colored houses. The noise, the stomping, whistling, and cheering that hadn't annoyed me when I was young was now something I dreaded.
Ethel Waters -
Austrian Republic established after the war gave an amnesty to 90 per cent of members of the Nazi Party in 1948, and to the SS and Gestapo by 1957.
Edmund de Waal
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Ex-members, even those with righteous complaints, tend to reconstruct their experiences — ambiguous situations at worst — into totally negative encounters. They tend to demonize the leaders and turn the members into zombielike followers. Harmless comments are recast into sinister threats, group jargon into conspirational fantasies.
J. Gordon Melton