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An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.

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• A boy doesn't have to go to war to be a hero; he can say he doesn't like pie when he sees there isn't enough to go around.

  

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• In order to carry a positive action we must develop here a positive vision.

  

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• If I don't like someone and I start reading their stuff, it seems like my brain will just automatically start criticizing everything that's there. It's really hard to read a book without having all this outside information telling you what to think about it.

  

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• I have always been so sure - too sure... But now I am very humble and I say like a little child: 'I do not know...'

  

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• Sinclair Lewis may be ripe for a revival; his books raise several interesting issues of art and fashion.

  

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• The highest heels I do are six-inch heels - but mostly only dancers can wear them, since they are used to being on point in ballet shoes.

  

  Christian Louboutin
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• The tax code can be used to eliminate the toll booths on the information superhighway.

  

  Jerry Weller

• The true artist helps the world by revealing mystic truths.

  

  Bruce Nauman
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• At the end of 'Illusions,' readers should see the inevitable coming.

  

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• Using medicine in the service of cosmesis is generally bad for patients, bad for doctors, and bad for democracy. The only exceptions are when we know the intervention will actually reduce suffering, as with a primary cleft lip repair.

  

  Alice Dreger
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• I just make the music feel the way I want it to feel, and I don't put it out until I'm totally happy with it.

  

  Dr. Dre
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• There's Batman, there's Superman, there's Wonder Woman. She's the full-blown real deal.

  

  Patty Jenkins
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• One of the things you will notice about the book of Mark is that if you read through it in one setting, you will be breathing hard at the end. Literally, Mark has set up this book in a way that it is almost like several snapshots of Jesus Christ.

  

  Paul Washer
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• I was a little nerdy, but I got along with everybody. I had fun at school - skateboarding, surfing, getting kicked out of class for making too much noise.

  

  Jason Lee
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• Any representation of a god is ultimately a lie, Silk explained. It may be a convenient lie, and it may even be a reverent one; but it's ultimately false. ... Neither image would be more nearly true than the other, or more true than any other-merely more appropriate.

  

  Gene Wolfe
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• The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

  

  Vartan Gregorian
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• There are more beauty parlors than there are beauties.

  

  Andy Rooney
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• I think a good husband has to depend on having a good wife.

  

  Jimmy Carter
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• It seems like whenever you write about Muslims, people assume that you're writing about the Quran, you are writing about the Prophet Muhammad. There's no sense that Muslims are capable of individualism, that they're capable of making mistakes that are somehow not connected to Islam.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
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• I am not married anymore. I hate marriage ... but it's okay now.

  

  Eric-Emmanuel Schmitt
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• I still don't like the word agnostic. It's too fancy. I'm simply not a believer. But, as simple as this notion is, it confuses some people. Someone wrote a Wikipedia entry about me, identifying me as an atheist because I'd said in a book I wrote that I wasn't a believer. I guess in a world uncomfortable with uncertainty, an unbeliever must be an atheist, and possibly an infidel. This gets us back to that most pressing of human questions: why do people worry so much about other people's holding beliefs other than their own?

  

  Alan Alda
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• You are not what you think you are, but what you THINK, you ARE.

  

  Brian Tracy
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• An agnostic is a cowardly atheist.

  

  Studs Terkel
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