Anthony B Pinn Quotes

I think of the US as an empire. The UK at one point, because of its reach, was an empire. But these megachurches - for me the concern is to not assume they have more authority than they actually have, to not give them a kind of reach that they really don't possess.

Anthony B Pinn

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• I teach my children that in life, there is no control of what tomorrow is going to bring. There really isn't. But in whatever it brings, we have choices, and I'm glad because I made more right choices than wrong, but in the wrong choices, there are lessons to be learned.

  

  BeBe Winans
  • Life
  • Children
  • Control

• I would rather lose in a cause that I know some day will triumph than to triumph in a cause that I know some day will fail.

  

  Wendell Wilkie
  • Know
  • Day
  • Lose

• Wanting to be a good actor is not good enough. You must want to be a great actor. You just have to have that.

  

  Gary Oldman
  • Good
  • Great
  • Not Good Enough

• There's a lot of creativity in the industry, but I don't necessarily think that the most creative DJs or producers are always the biggest ones.

  

  Flume
  • Think
  • Creativity
  • Creative

• I'll put you through hell, but at the end of it all we'll be champions.

  

  Bear Bryant
  • End
  • Hell
  • Champions

• Laws protecting the United States flag do not cut away at the freedom of speech guaranteed in the First Amendment... Congress made this position clear upon passage of the Flag Protection Act of 1989, which prohibited desecration of the flag.

  

  Larry Craig
  • Freedom
  • First Amendment

• There are a number of women who have brought about immense change in society.

  

  A. P. J. Abdul Kalam
  • Women
  • Society
  • Change

• We cannot have that relationship if we only dictate or threaten and condemn those who disagree.

  

  Zbigniew Brzezinski
  • Relationship
  • Only
  • Threaten

• We're more into expressing ourselves than making radio hits.

  

  Adam Jones
  • More
  • Radio
  • Making

• Doctors try to get rid of their patients - clergymen try to get them hooked on the medicine so that they will become addicts to the church. 1

  

  Alan Watts
  • Church

• Anyone who loses a parent, you have to find those parts of yourself that your parent held true in themselves, especially if they're supportive parents.

  

  Anthony Rapp
  • True
  • Parents
  • Parent

• The recent penalties levied by CPSC send a strong message that failing to report potential hazards is illegal.

  

  Hal Stratton
  • Strong
  • Message
  • Penalties

• Malcolm X was the first prominent American to attack and to criticize the U.S. role in Southeast Asia, and he came out four-square against the Vietnam War in 1964, long before the vast majority of Americans did.

  

  Manning Marable
  • Long
  • American
  • War

• I would have made a terrible parent. The first time my child didn't do what I wanted, I'd kill him.

  

  Katharine Hepburn
  • Time
  • Child
  • Parent

• I always felt I needed to teach to survive.

  

  Leonard Baskin
  • Teach
  • Survive
  • Felt

• Don't tell your problems to people: eighty percent don't care; and the other twenty percent are glad you have them.

  

  Lou Holtz
  • People
  • Problem
  • Care

• You know, mind allows us to portray in different sensory modalities, visual, auditory, olfactory, you name it, what we are like and what the world is like. But this very, very important quality of subjectivity, this quality that allows us to take a distant view and say, "I am here, I exist, I have a life and there are things around me that refer to me." That me-ness, M-E-hyphen, that is what really constitutes consciousness.

  

  Antonio Damasio
  • Life
  • World
  • Different

• It's outrageous to me when I see people hate on someone because of their sexuality. I hate the intolerance. I hate the judgment. I hate it so much.

  

  Ariana Grande
  • People
  • Hate
  • Sexuality

• Learn to distinguish what you can and can't control. Within our control are our own opinions, aspirations, desires and the things that repel us. They are directly subject to our influence.

  

  Epictetus
  • Control
  • Learn
  • Opinions

• The time to grant anybody a favor is the day the favor is asked, for that day is the one psychological moment of the world when supply and demand are keyed exacty to each other's limits, and can be mated beatifically to grow old, or die young, together. But after that day -- !

  

  Eleanor Hallowell Abbott
  • Together
  • Limits
  • Demand

• Before the birth of Love, many fearful things took place through the empire of necessity; but when this god was born, all things rose to men.

  

  Socrates
  • God
  • Love
  • Birth

• I was born in Jerusalem in 1939 to a poor family that shared a rented four-room apartment with two additional families and their children.

  

  Ada Yonath
  • Children
  • Family
  • Jerusalem

• I think of the US as an empire. The UK at one point, because of its reach, was an empire. But these megachurches - for me the concern is to not assume they have more authority than they actually have, to not give them a kind of reach that they really don't possess.

  

  Anthony B Pinn
  • Authority
  • Reach
  • Empire