Bart Ehrman Quotes
The political benefactors are considered 'religious' heroes. They have statues and a place in the temple, and sacrifices are made in their honor. In a very real sense they are the 'saviors' and so are treated as such.
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Exposure is about, among other things, the ferocity of the press and the way - in an echo of some of Shakespeare's plays - the modern media creates heroes to destroy them.
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Bollywood has always pampered heroes and treated actors as second class citizens. But, of late, it has realised that there has to be space for actors who can connect with people.
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In war the heroes always outnumber the soldiers ten to one.
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I identify with the Clint Eastwoods and Harrison Fords. Those are my heroes.
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I was raised by two actors in a moment in time - the Seventies - when there was no judgment of characters, no heroes and bad guys.
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We treated all of the dead with dignity.
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I had both male and female heroes.
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Simultaneously, my two biggest heroes are Susan Sontag and Morticia Addams from 'The Addams Family.'
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But in Japan, there's nothing like that, since the temple is made of wood. The divine spirit inside the building is eternal, so the enclosure doesn't have to be.
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The human voice deployed to recite the Vedas and later aid the temple dancers was paramount before any instruments emerged.
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And in a world without heroes, as the movie trailer voice-over guy might say, the slightly awkward can be slightly cool.
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Virtue has her heroes tooAs well as Fame and Fortune.
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How is it that I became a conservative from being a liberal? It's because I witnessed how liberals behaved to a conservative. They treated him poorly. Had I not seen that, I wouldn't have opened my eyes.
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Your body is a temple, whether you're a Jew or not.
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In a temple everything should be serious except the thing that is being worshiped.
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Treat everyone how you want to be treated.
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We tend to value military heroes and Schwarzenegger types who are physically courageous. The heroics of doing the right thing every day even when it is dull and inconvenient are undervalued.
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I took a lot of things for granted - especially how I treated my body.
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I don't mind . . . the fun and games of being treated like a fragile flower. But as a physiologist working with the unromantic scientific facts of life, I find it hard to delude myself about feminine frailty.
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Many a man has gotten himself killed by believing his own press.
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I like the honesty of standup comedy. People don't fake laugh. If they're truly laughing at you, you know they like you.
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Because I spent many years during my previous life as an academic researching game theory, some commentators rushed to presume that as Greece's new finance minister, I was busily devising bluffs, stratagems and outside options, struggling to improve upon a weak hand. Nothing could be further from the truth.
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The political benefactors are considered 'religious' heroes. They have statues and a place in the temple, and sacrifices are made in their honor. In a very real sense they are the 'saviors' and so are treated as such.
