Barry W. Lynn Quotes

The real enemy of the Christian Right is not Americans United or the ACLU; it is themselves.

Barry W. Lynn

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• I never desire to converse with a man who has written more than he has read.

  

  Samuel Johnson
  • Man
  • Desire
  • Never

• I know that campaigns can seem small, and even silly. Trivial things become big distractions. Serious issues become sound bites. And the truth gets buried under an avalanche of money and advertising. If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me - so am I.

  

  Barack Obama
  • Believe
  • Money
  • Truth

• Anybody that believes that a country can be maintained that has no ethnic core to it or no linguistic core to it, I believe, is naive in the extreme.

  

  Pat Buchanan
  • Believe
  • Country
  • I Believe

• I asked my mother could I have an instrument. She said, 'Well if you go out and save your money.' So I went and got - I made me a shine box. I went out and started shining shoes, and I'd bring whatever I made.

  

  Ornette Coleman
  • Money
  • She
  • Mother

• Nobody's life is wrapped up neatly in a bow.

  

  Zoe Lister-Jones
  • Life
  • Up
  • Nobody

• The causes and severity of NSA infractions vary widely. One in 10 incidents is attributed to a typographical error in which an analyst enters an incorrect query and retrieves data about U.S phone calls or emails.

  

  Barton Gellman
  • Error
  • Data
  • Phone

• Being a professional cricketer, you have to adapt to the conditions quickly. It takes time to get rhythm when you are constantly traveling from one country to another.

  

  Harbhajan Singh
  • Time
  • Country
  • Professional

• I feel so much pride to represent my community and be Latino. No doubt about it, above my career and sales being a Latino comes first.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Career
  • Community
  • Doubt

• It is not the 'greatness,' the intensity, of the emotions, the components, but the intensity of the artistic process, the pressure, so to speak, under which the fusion takes place, that counts.

  

  T. S. Eliot
  • Greatness

• Greek pederasty honored the erotic magnetism of male adolescence in a way that today brings police to the door. Children are more conscious and perverse than parents like to think.

  

  Camille Paglia
  • Children
  • Today
  • Parents

• Listening is self-empowerment via the empowerment of others.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Listening

• Men are still playing protector of women’s transitions, and both sexes expect only men to make transitions on their own.

  

  Warren Farrell
  • Men
  • Women

• Meditation … puts into question more or less everything you tend to do in your search for happiness. But if you lose sight of this, it can become just another strategy for seeking happiness-a more refined version of the problem you already have.

  

  Sam Harris
  • Question
  • Search
  • Meditation

• You should stop asking your politicians how they’re gonna do it.

  

  Rahul Gandhi
  • Stop

• Lies run sprints but the truth runs marathons.

  

  Michael Jackson
  • Truth
  • Lies

• One of the cool things about traveling and being a musician is that you meet so many people who have studied different things and have different careers.

  

  Frankie Cosmos
  • People
  • Different
  • Cool

• I was always interested in listening to music - and, of course, when my older brother brought home 'Heartbreak Hotel,' that was it.

  

  Lindsey Buckingham
  • Music
  • Home
  • Listening

• If an acquisition can speed a process or fill a gap, we'll jump right to that. It's about timing, need... it's not necessarily an algorithm.

  

  Peggy Johnson
  • Jump

• Queen Latifah used to help me out with my kids, because while we were all out on tour - Public Enemy, Naughty By Nature, Queen Latifah, Heavy D - when Public Enemy went onstage, I didn't have anybody solid to watch my kids. So, Latifah would help me out.

  

  Flavor Flav
  • Kids
  • Help
  • Nature

• The only enemy is ignorance. Peace, people. Let's get rid of all this nuclear testing.

  

  Jon Bon Jovi
  • People
  • Peace
  • Enemy

• What one Predator drone pilot described of his experience fighting in the Iraq war while never leaving Nevada: 'You're going to war for 12 hours, shooting weapons at targets, directing kills on enemy combatants. Then you get in the car and you drive home, and within 20 minutes you're sitting at the dinner table talking to your kids about their homework.'

  

  P. W. Singer
  • Home
  • Experience
  • Kids

• Touch. It is touch that is the deadliest enemy of chastity, loyalty, monogamy, gentility with its codes and conventions and restraints. By touch we are betrayed and betray others ... an accidental brushing of shoulders or touching of hands ... hands laid on shoulders in a gesture of comfort that lies like a thief, that takes, not gives, that wants, not offers, that awakes, not pacifies. When one flesh is waiting, there is electricity in the merest contact.

  

  Wallace Stegner
  • Enemy
  • Chastity
  • Deadliest

• There are always ways to make government better, always ways to make sure that the taxes of people are better spent.

  

  George Osborne
  • People

• The real enemy of the Christian Right is not Americans United or the ACLU; it is themselves.

  

  Barry W. Lynn
  • Enemy
  • Americans
  • Christian Right