Amy-Jill Levine Quotes
Religion has been defined as designed to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. We do well to think of the parables of Jesus as doing the afflicting. Therefore, if we hear a parable and think, 'I really like that' or, worse, fail to take any challenge, we are not listening well enough.
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Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.
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For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
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I don't have the kind of style that I feel like would serve any and everyone.
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Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
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The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
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I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
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I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
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I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
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When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
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He plants trees to benefit another generation.
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I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
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Although I come from a family who are Muslim - my mother is Egyptian, my father is Palestinian - my mother only puts a veil on her head when she has a bad hair day.
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We don't have to sit by while Trump uses his enormous global platform to undermine our national security. We would love to be able to actually force Twitter's hand to live up to its rules, explicitly forbidding hate speech and encouraging violence.
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I like America, where believers eddy around each other like currents of air. Even our atheists are devout! To be an American is to be a believer. I don't have much faith in institutions, but I still believe in people.
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It seems like, to me, somewhere between 30 and 35 is a really, really good time to turn your eggs into babies.
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Everyone who watches Adult Swim knows there's a sound to it, a feeling that's nostalgic sometimes, but then it's also different and outside the box.
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The captain, thinking over this event afterward, realized that by his own lifelong standards he had a crew composed entirely of lunatics, with himself well to the front in degree of aberration; but he was fairly sure that this particular form of insanity was going to be useful.
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I want to get to the stage where nobody can tell how a picture of mine is done. What's the point of that? Simply that I want nothing but emotion given off by it.
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I try to just talk about human stories and what I think about religion or teapots or whatever.
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The material universe must consist ... of bodies ... such that each of them exercises its own separate, independent, and invariable effect, a change of the total state being compounded of a number of separate changes each of which is solely due to a separate portion of the preceding state.
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Religion has been defined as designed to comfort the afflicted and to afflict the comfortable. We do well to think of the parables of Jesus as doing the afflicting. Therefore, if we hear a parable and think, 'I really like that' or, worse, fail to take any challenge, we are not listening well enough.
