Barry W. Lynn Quotes
Religion and the wars against other faiths it engenders should teach us all that we have a pretty good thing going here. In fact, the separation of church and state is probably the single best idea that our two-hundred-year experiment in democracy has engendered.
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If I had a big brother who was a year older than me or something, I probably wouldn't have ended up being a filmmaker.
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When I was a kid, all I ever wanted was to be famous.
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In 2009, during my inaugural address, I expressed the importance of unprecedented partnerships. Since then, Utah's government, business, and education leaders in communities statewide have worked together more frequently and with better results than ever before.
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People still think of me as a cartoonist, but the only thing I lift a pen or pencil for these days is to sign a contract, a check, or an autograph.
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I had my father, and he was an amazing man and an amazing role model, so I always wanted to mirror that.
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We may define therapy as a search for value.
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I used to enjoy bad television, like really bad quiz programmes or sitcoms.
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I finished the recordings I had started with Eleven. Matt Cameron joined for the rest of those sessions.
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If I'm not in shape, it feels like something is wrong. If I haven't been able to get to class for a while or I've been sick, I don't feel complete. It doesn't feel like the electricity is making its connections.
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No man is good enough to govern another man without the other's consent.
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There would be nights when I would wake up and couldn't get back to sleep. So I would go downstairs and write. The staff had a pool going on how many pages of typing I would bring in here in the morning.
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Growth is a panacea for many ills in society; not entirely, but many.
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It feels important to go school; not necessarily to further my education, but more like a hobby.
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I think it's good to have surprises in fashion because we always see the same things.
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I like to run a lot. I play tennis, and I like doing outdoorsy stuff - fishing, canoeing.
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I'm a great will maker. I've made my will every year since I was 21.
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I think Alison Krauss is one of the most amazing singers ever. As a songwriter - this is gonna sound cheesy - I love Randy Newman. And my mom passed on a love of Bob Dylan and Joni Mitchell. At one point I was so into the Indigo Girls, just like I was so into the Dixie Chicks, those female harmonies.
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Once you've dissected a joke, you're about where you are when you've dissected a frog. It's dead.
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I hate my smile - I think I look like an absolute wally when I smile, I really do.
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Beecher described slavery as an 'organic sin,' by which he meant that a sing that permeates the body politic so completely that it cannot be cured by targeted excision but must be overwhelmed with an infusion of love.
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I was aware, in those early days of motherhood, that my behaviour was strange to the people who knew me well. It was as though I had been brainwashed, taken over by a cult religion. And yet this cult, motherhood, was not a place where I could actually live. Like any cult, it demanded a complete surrender of identity to belong to it.
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God allows us to experience the low points of life in order to teach us lessons that we could learn in no other way.
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Religion and the wars against other faiths it engenders should teach us all that we have a pretty good thing going here. In fact, the separation of church and state is probably the single best idea that our two-hundred-year experiment in democracy has engendered.
