Madalyn Murray O'Hair Quotes
I was about 12 or 13 years old. I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend ,just as if it were a novel, very rapidly, and I've never gotten over the shock of it. The miracles, the inconsistencies, the improbabilities, the impossibilities, the wretched history, the sordid sex, the sadism in it - the whole thing shocked me profoundly.
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It's kind of amazing that people will travel because of a book. I admire that.
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I studied Morse code.
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If you look back on the breakups that you've had, whether it's a long relationship or a one-night stand, it's always awkward.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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There really is no difference between the bully and the victim.
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I had decided that if I was going to be a singer, I had to earn it. I had to learn how to play an instrument.
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Thus, biologically speaking the American people are literally only half an immigrant people.
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I grew up on Marvel and, like, '2000 AD.'
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Just try to get the puck and make plays, not so much worry about scoring or getting an assist or points, just try to get it and make plays. That should take care of itself.
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We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know.
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I have a theory that if you're famous more years than you're not famous, then you get a little nutty.
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I don't accept gifts from perfect strangers - but then, nobody's perfect.
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Food is fuel and not a solution to anything other than giving your body nutrients. I love chocolate like the next girl, but it's not going to change my situation.
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I've become invested with this symbolic power. It really does transcend what I'm actually doing and what I actually deserve.
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Art has to change things, and if it was immediately acceptable it would not be doing the job.
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When I was 8 or 9, I started using bulletin board systems, which was the precursor to the Internet, where you'd dial into... a shared system and shared computers. I've had an email address since the late '80s, when I was 8 or 9 years old, and then I got on the Internet in '93 when it was first starting out.
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There are still some natural forces that everybody understands. Technology and industry have distanced people from nature and magic and human values.
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None of us feels the true love of God till we realize how wicked we are. But you can't teach people that - they have to learn by experience.
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We now think of internal representation as great big vectors, and we do not think of logic as the paradigm for how to get things to work. We just think you can have these great big neural nets that learn, and so, instead of programming, you are just going to get them to learn everything.
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I was about 12 or 13 years old. I picked up the Bible and read it from cover to cover one weekend ,just as if it were a novel, very rapidly, and I've never gotten over the shock of it. The miracles, the inconsistencies, the improbabilities, the impossibilities, the wretched history, the sordid sex, the sadism in it - the whole thing shocked me profoundly.
