Bart Ehrman Quotes
Every triumph is also a defeat, and the ecstasies of those who prevail are matched by the agonies of those who lose.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Inspired by Alex Haley's 'Roots,' at the age of 11 I began a handwritten Middle Passage story called 'Lawdy, Lawdy, Make Us Free.' I was raised by civil rights activists with a very strong sense of racial history and consciousness.
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I don't ever take anything for granted.
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I always wanted pink hair.
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I really enjoy doing films, but I also love television. I certainly would not be against doing some regular television work and being on a show that runs several years.
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I could find faults with all my albums because that's just a part of being an artist - it's hard being a human being, isn't it?
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Novelists want to be published and need a publisher to decide to print 20,000 copies. So you need to entertain on some level. I want to reach out and connect.
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With aging, you earn the right to be loyal to yourself.
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I've spent my whole life not talking to people, and I don't see why I should start now.
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But then I hit my 20s and only made two albums, and now I live in a ski resort as a ski bum basically.
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Religion is a matter of the heart. No physical inconvenience can warrant abandonment of one's own religion.
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All my books reflect travel adventures of some kind, and all have a soul: a spiritual or mystical underpinning.
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It gets quite difficult for me when I listen to pop music. I don't often understand the words, but when someone translates them to me, I think, 'What is this song representing? That women are just there to be treated like objects?'
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The best thing I've learned is that you have to listen to your body, and you have to be your own physician. Don't ignore those little groaning aches and pains.
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I knew I wanted to be a writer before I knew that being a writer was possible.
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You spend enough time with someone, you're going to have your run-ins.
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When my agents tell me how much I'm going to be paid for a film, instead of quoting a figure, they'll say: 'You're going to make ten pairs of Christian Louboutins.'
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Well, I am very happy that I was able to play a part in bringing music from the streets onto the radio and into modern culture, I worked very hard and always believed in the sounds I was creating.
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I just want to have fun.
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How poor, how rich, how abject, how august, How complicate, how wonderful, is man!... Midway from nothing to the Deity!
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[Regarding mathematics,] there are now few studies more generally recognized, for good reasons or bad, as profitable and praiseworthy. This may be true; indeed it is probable, since the sensational triumphs of Einstein, that stellar astronomy and atomic physics are the only sciences which stand higher in popular estimation.
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I have the feeling we can't lose. We're very strong this year. There's also a psychological factor. Teams playing us know they are likely to lose.
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The world's a forest, in which all lose their way; though by a different path each goes astray.
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Every triumph is also a defeat, and the ecstasies of those who prevail are matched by the agonies of those who lose.
