Bart Ehrman Quotes
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In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.
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Technology is vital. We have to have development in new technology if we're going to solve these environmental problems without throwing humanity back in poverty.
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It is not important what Rahul Gandhi thinks, its important what a billion Indians think.
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If people think they've found my biggest weakness, let them try to take advantage of it.
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A successful marriage is a decision. You decide it's going to work. You can't always be there, but you have to be there enough. And you have to make sure you are where you're needed most.
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To me, music is no joke and it's not for sale.
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A person isn't who they are during the last conversation you had with them - they're who they've been throughout your whole relationship.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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I no longer do a film for the wrong reasons. I have to be convinced ethically and morally. Both the director and I have to be on the same page. There are just five songs in most films these days, and they have to be amazing. There has to be a twist in the screenplay. The editing has to be crisp. Your hard work should show, but effortlessly.
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I'd say Juventus has a story as legendary as the Yankees.
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But I was losing so much bone density that I would have been in grave danger. And I mean grave danger. If I had let it go just a few more years I could have broken my hip or spine just picking up my granddaughter.
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The happiest part of a man's life is what he passes lying awake in bed in the morning.
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Her blue eyes were still beautiful, but they did not know what was before them, and Mary herself could never look through them again to tell Laura what she was thinking without saying a word.
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It's such a hard thing to write a song for your fans without sounding naff and thanking them for spending money on you.
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When the bright angel dominates, out comes a great work of art, a Michelangelo David or a Beethoven symphony.
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The post-Soviet mafia wove a spider's web of dirty money around the world. Where better to attack it than to start with the Ukrainian criminal heavyweights - the 'family' and its closest circle?
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The West should be tougher on Pakistan. It is trying to play both ends against the middle - to look like the friend of the revolutionaries on the one hand and a friend of the West in the fight against terrorism. It can't be both things.
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Take Hispanic voters. They favor Democrats because they like the party's programs, from health care reform to government spending on education. It's not because the Republicans don't have a big enough Office of Hispanic Outreach.
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Sometimes, when we are sad, we have to do the opposite of sad. Sometimes we have to sing.
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I love seeing the light go on in aspiring writers' eyes when you point out ways to improve their prose or their story - when they get it.
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Religion is induced insanity.
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There is one domain in which untruth is insupportable, that field of the human soul's endeavor of which Truth is the very substance and being, - religion.
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There are few things more dangerous than inbred religious certainty.
