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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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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You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.
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One of the most valuable things any person can learn is the art of using the knowledge and experience of others.
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If you listen to the left track on their album, if you get The Best of the Mamas and Papas, you listen to the left track, you can still hear a little bit of my voice. My son discovered that once.
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As anyone who has tinnitus knows, it's not something that you can ignore, and you have to deal with it on a daily basis.
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may i be i is the only prayer--not may i be great or good or beautiful or wise or strong today... may i be me....five foot eleven, brown hair/eyed, smart, serious, happy, frustrated, impatient, joyful, running, sleeping, smiling, eating, trying, believing, listening, being & becoming.
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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.
