Bart Ehrman Quotes
Faith is a mystery and an experience of the divine in the world, not a solution to a set of problems.
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I do think that tonal element of Trump's is attractive, but I don't know if I would go so far as to say the confrontational element of his rhetoric is necessarily attractive.
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There's, what, 300 films at the Telluride or Toronto or something. How many are those people gonna see? How many of those are actually gonna be in a theater, you know? You know, as an actor, I mean, I learned a long time ago that the fulfillment in this business is the doing of it because you can't rely on anything coming out.
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You can really taste the difference between a shop-bought and a good homemade mayo.
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People trash talk me.
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I knew that I wanted to be an actor; how to go about it was the question. I went to Australia for my studies; from there I told my dad that I also want to do a course in performing arts, but my father refused. So I completed my studies and came back. But I kept poking him, saying that acting is something that I want to do.
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I've got some gift for languages. You follow your gift. But Latin's not easy.
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I want to be different and have a good story. If it's a good story, then everybody is trying to tell it, everybody is better for it, and it's just more fun.
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America is rather like life. You can usually find in it what you look for. It will probably be interesting, and it is sure to be large.
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It's never crowded along the extra mile.
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My grandparents used to bring me books every time they saw me.
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When you have an engagement, at least in my world, the world that I create for myself, an engagement doesn't begin when you hit the stage and end when you leave the stage. It begins when you hit the city limits, and it ends when you leave the city limits.
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I only hope that one day, America will recognize what the rest of the world already has known, that our indigenous music - gospel, blues, jazz and R&B - is the heart and soul of all popular music; and that we cannot afford to let this legacy slip into obscurity, I'm telling you.
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You have to captivate and entertain if you want your message to get across.
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I've had confidence in myself all along. It was just a matter of getting the pieces back in place.
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We never had a huge squad and we never had a great deal of choice. But in many ways that helps because you've got to make do with what you've got. You don't have too many problems about picking the team you just hope that everyone turns up on the day.
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We all have our painful pasts we have to get through.
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Why movies are so powerful is because you are right in there and you stay in there until they want you to come out, and then you've really gone somewhere.
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Roc Nation has an army. I'm happy because this is what I needed. I have the music, but they have the muscle.
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I think there's a kind of xenophobic frenzy on talk radio, on cable television, from (CNN's) Lou Dobbs to some of the shows on Fox (News).
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The position that I take partly as a result of living in Asia is where you stop living according to your expectations and you become available to experience things as they are.
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Sometimes instinct can be wrong. But sometimes it can be right too. And sometimes you just have to take it on faith.
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Evolution actually involves much more than life arising from non-life by natural means. Evolution really does away with God, and thus allows people to explain their existence without any supernatural being involved.
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Faith is a mystery and an experience of the divine in the world, not a solution to a set of problems.
