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.Amy-Jill Levine
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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.
Ralph Lauren -
For every reason it's not possible, there are hundreds of people who have faced the same circumstances and succeeded.
Jack Canfield -
Plus, I am paranoid by nature. I need to be in control.
Taylor Dayne -
We all have our strengths and our failings.
Hannah Simone -
Any writer will be happy and good only if they know what they're doing and why they're doing it.
Yann Martel -
The difficulty we have in accepting responsibility for our behavior lies in the desire to avoid the pain of the consequences of that behavior.
M. Scott Peck
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I believe that as an entertainer, you're only as good as your audience and the people who support you.
Zachary Levi -
I've always been DJing; it's just I'm making more of a push for it, making it more public.
Idris Elba -
I like someone who's not afraid to be a kid!
Vanessa Hudgens -
I love playing sports. I'm overly eager and aggressive and not very skilled, so it leads to many small injuries.
Rachel Platten -
When you expect things to happen - strangely enough - they do happen.
J. P. Morgan -
He plants trees to benefit another generation.
Caecilius Statius
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I'm a straight shooter, and most of the time my ego doesn't interrupt my relationships.
Gabriel Macht -
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.
Valerie Plame -
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.
Victor LaValle -
You had better love the music... because sometimes the music doesn't love you.
Zakk Wylde Black Label Society -
When I was 18 or 19, I realized that everything I was doing was connected to music - writing, doing videos, making my clothes. It all centered around being an artist. So I released a mixtape that I made in my bedroom, and it ended up getting a lot more attention than I expected.
Kali Uchis -
I'm no hero. Heroes don't come back. Survivors return home. Heroes never come home. If anyone thinks I'm a hero, I'm not.
Bob Feller
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There's value in being a normal person.
Kelsea Ballerini -
Truth is the best defense.
Ward Churchill -
The curse of the intelligentsia is their ability to rationalize and re-define. Ordinary people, lacking that gift, are forced to face reality.
Thomas Sowell -
A man will do more for his stubbornness than for his religion or his country.
E. W. Howe -
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.
Amy-Jill Levine