Adam Gollner Quotes
The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.
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I ended the war a horse ahead.
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I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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I sang for my family. And I think probably the first time I sang and got paid for it, I was about 6 or 7.
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Rights that do not flow from duty well performed are not worth having.
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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I was sent to a nice Church of England girls' school and at that time, after university, a woman was expected to become a teacher, a nurse or a missionary - prior to marriage.
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Unfortunately I'm still not a fashion expert.
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They draw back into themselves, and are thrown back on their own bodies for gratification. The men become narcissistic and uncertain of the power of any woman, no matter how strange and beautiful, to arouse their desire, but the women remain continually receptive to male advances.
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I grew up reading a lot of superhero comics, so it's really fun to take a shot at one myself and see what happens.
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You can't live on planet rock star 24/7; you have to be down and dirty and have some fun.
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There's always a positive to those negative times, because you come out of it so much stronger and wiser. Strength comes from every hardship, and it's been a lesson for me.
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Dennis to friend: No use crying, Joey. There aren't any grownups around.
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Raising awareness on the most pressing environmental issues of our time is more important than ever.
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If you don't get out of the box you've been raised in, you won't understand how much bigger the world is.
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I typically enjoy a beautiful beach destination, as I find the water and sand to be the most replenishing.
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Unhappiness comes from mirrors. Happiness comes from windows.
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I could beat my mike stand into the stage, but I was still in pain. Maybe fans liked it, but sometimes people forget you're a person and they're more into the entertainment value. It's taken a long time to turn that around and give a strong show without it being a kamikaze show.
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...the voice was indisputable. It continued to swear with that breadth and variety that distinguishes the swearing of a cultivated man.
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Unless man is committed to the belief that all mankind are his brothers, then he labors in vain and hypocritically in the vineyards of equality.
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Why am I an atheist? I ask you: Why is anybody not an atheist? Everyone starts out being an atheist. No one is born with belief in anything. Infants are atheists until they are indoctrinated. I resent anyone pushing their religion on me. I don't push my atheism on anybody else. Live and let live. Not many people practice that when it comes to religion.
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I would describe fundamentalism as, first of all, a movement led almost invariably by authoritarian males who consider themselves to be superior to others and who have an overwhelming commitment to subjugate women and to dominate their fellow believers.
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Years in themselves mean nothing. How we live them means everything.
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The finest peculiarity of belief is that believers do not recognize themselves as believers.
