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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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 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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My stepdad is a Patriots fan, so I've become a Pats fan, too.
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When people don't have any curiosity about themselves, that is always a bad sign.
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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 always try to plan things out, but they never work out the way I expect.
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Playing and listening to music gives you a sense of fulfilment because you have to put everything in you at its disposal.
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Lately I've been falling asleep listening to 'Common One' by Van Morrison, specifically the song 'Summertime in England.' It's 15 minutes long, so to make it through the entire song is a real task unto itself, but Van has that emotional payoff that makes even his most tiresome songs more powerful than most people's entire catalog.
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I mix my lipsticks a lot. Depending on how I decide to do my eyes, I'll decide to do my lips. I've never really loved wearing only red or purple, and sometimes just pink isn't enough.
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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.
