Anthony B Pinn Quotes
The problem is poverty. And it hides the problem. We often associate black churches with a history of protest. But prosperity gospel and megachurches tend to be rather soft on political issues. T.D. Jakes doesn't take a major stand on political issues. Creflo Dollar certainly doesn't.
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I am no fashion diva - I grew up on the beaches in South Africa and am a nature girl that spends a lot of time outdoors. Fashion speaks to me through an occasion.
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I feel like writing a book there's always a version in your head that's an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write.
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Those darker sides, the things that we don't want to admit about ourselves - that's what excites me.
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Those who get stuck doing the same things for too long are bound to get left behind the strong who press on and re-invent themselves.
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Some people rehearse to a point where they're robotic, and they sound like they have memorized their presentation and didn't take it to the next level. Going from sounding memorized and canned to sounding natural is a lot of work.
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I don't remake any movie, whether old or of other language.
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There is no such thing as guilt-free eating.
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And several galleries – two had asked me and I said no, because I didn't want to leave things on consignment.
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The tug-of-war between Scientologists and anti-Scientologists over Hubbard’s legacy has created two swollen archetypes: the most important person who ever lived and the world’s greatest con man. Hubbard was certainly grandiose, but to label him merely a fraud is to ignore the complexity of his character.
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Class instinct is subjective and spontaneous. ... To arrive at proletarian class positions, the class instinct of proletarians only needs to be educated; the class instinct of the petty bourgeoisie, and hence of intellectuals, has, on the contrary, to be revolutionized.
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Islam is in principle egalitarian, and has always had problems with power.
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When Gore Vidal was coming up, there were three major channels, and he could count on a big audience when he debated someone like William F. Buckley on TV.
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Losing has nothing to do with geography.
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Our thinking behind these agreements is that we want all jobs in General Motors to be good jobs.
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I want to tell girls, it's not about make-up and how you look that's important; you are so much more than how you look.
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I am happy to be patient zero. It is for the world, for the sick children and sick old people. My life has been good. I understand the risks but I research how people die and I am happy to say that today I do not know how I will die now. Tomorrow or in the long future I was up for a change.
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Francis Bacon is one of my giant inspirations. I just love him to pieces.
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The meanings of words and the uses of words come from practice from the way people in a given culture use those words.
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I feel like anything I've ever done, I've been strongly advised not to do.
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I'm most active on Instagram, then Twitter, and then Facebook. I haven't opened up Snapchat for the public; it's only for my friends.
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The creative act is not pure. History evidences it. Sociology extracts it. The writer loses Eden, writes to be read and comes to realize that he is answerable.
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Images have an advanced religion; they bury history.
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The problem is poverty. And it hides the problem. We often associate black churches with a history of protest. But prosperity gospel and megachurches tend to be rather soft on political issues. T.D. Jakes doesn't take a major stand on political issues. Creflo Dollar certainly doesn't.
