William Sloane Coffin Quotes
Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
Quotes to Explore
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Do you know what a showmance is? It is like being at a summer camp when you're a teenager. You spend summertime away from your home. When you spend three months very closely with someone at a particular place, it is like a summer love. You have no choice but to get involved with that person.
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Never trust the artist. Trust the tale. The proper function of the critic is to save the tale from the artist who created it.
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I wondered a little why God was such a useless thing. It seemed a waste of time to have him. After that he became less and less, until he was... nothingness.
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Common Core isn't a test, but for some people it is, because they don't like the testing piece of it.
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In 1916, Universal Studios released the first filmed adaptation of Jules Verne's novel '20,000 Leagues Under the Sea.' Georges Melies made a film by that name in 1907, but, unlike his earlier adaptations of Verne, Melies' version bears no resemblance to the book.
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As it has for America's other indigenous peoples, I believe the United States must fulfill its responsibility to Native Hawaiians.
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On the tour we get a case of beer on the bus every day from Ozzfest.
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You don't necessarily pick the singles that you want when you're making a record, but for the most part it's the same process. You're the artist - you make the music that you want to make.
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I was always able to get money, but now it's a little bit more money, and I manage the same way. I just want to see my family do better.
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The enemies of the Christian religion and the Law of God confuse law with faith.
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Parallel to our vast strides in technology, there is a dangerous rise in unemployment, foreclosures, and degrading education. Millions of people are stricken with hopelessness and strife. Sadly, in the name of progress we have polluted the air, water, soil and the food we eat.
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You can't always measure the effects of activist work; you just have to wish and pray that the message gets through.
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What you have outside you counts less than what you have inside you.
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Science seems to be at war with itself.... Naive realism leads to physics, and physics, if true, shows naive realism to be false. Therefore naive realism, if true, is false; therefore it is false.
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The bones of the Dead will be seen to govern the fortunes of him who moves them.
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Both the aphorism and the poem channel man’s wild impulse to escape the systems another part of him has so carefully constructed.
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When I am having my picture taken, I channel Beyonce. In the studio, my inspiration is Adele.
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Mark Grotjahn's large new paintings abound with torrents of ropy impasto, laid down in thickets, cascading waves, and bundles that swell, braid around, or overlap one another.
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We get so caught up in winning all the time, but it's also even more important to be a good person, so that's what I learned.
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Every dog might wish to be Dog One, but like us, most dogs want membership in the group even more than they want supremacy over others.
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As some people say, we're already in a Singularity relative to ancient Grecians, inasmuch as they couldn't understand our world at all... and I think it's true in the opposite direction, too.
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We know that working with small businesses to create jobs will do more to help our economy than anything the Obama Administration has tried to do.
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The whole aspect of cinema and film festivals should be a moment to come together and celebrate art and humanity. It would be a shame if there was such a divide.
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Socrates had it wrong; it is not the unexamined but finally the uncommitted life that is not worth living.
