Richard Aldington Quotes
We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know more about "God" than the Cockney sentry on duty outside the camp? We have only their say-so.
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The experience of being on a show that is very much in the center of popular culture is exciting. You really feel like you're reaching people.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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Ummm, there is not just one good thing about being a VJ, it is a package deal. It is a fun job and you get paid to party and have a good time and make people have a good time, which is great.
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I have two cats at home in Minnesota with my family. Beau and Skippy.
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Shopping turns me off.
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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Don't talk it, walk it.
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Never lived in L.A. I've always done the New York thing.
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I had my bad-boy moment in my teens. I'll never do that again. It wasn't pleasant, and I learned my lesson. It was sexy and mysterious, and it's like, 'Look how cool they are,' but it's just not worth it. He was lying to me and accusing me of cheating - but then I realized he was the one cheating.
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Everybody likes to listen to a song because it's fun, and nobody wants to sit around and listen to 'I-really-have-to-analyze-these-lyrics' songs all the time.
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I hang out with the right people, my friends that I've had since the beginning. We go to the beach, take walks, paint, see our family - just normal things that people who become famous lose sight of.
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I think people respond to truth. 'Straight Outta Compton' made $60 million over the weekend, right? That's not just a black audience. 'Empire' grew every single week. That's not just a black audience. Black culture is American culture, you know what I mean? They're becoming more and more one in the same.
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It's like a rugby team. If you're picking for the World Cup final, you're picking experience with youth. Everything is better off having that balance and that mix. I think that, especially, goes for the monarchy as well.
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To drive though the streets of Manhattan to sign a record deal was like a movie. It was crazy - pretty hard to put into words.
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There's certainly an attitude in some measure of the conservative movement that I believe won't accept the legitimacy of any Democratic president, and I think Obama did fall victim to that - witness the 'birthers.'
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Pitches are like pages of a book; they're so important. The chess game; how I set you up early, and how I'll do it differently later.
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I believe Obama is a lot of fun when he's not trying to keep our economy together.
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God almighty made women and the Rockefeller gang of thieves made the ladies.
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They say politics is a contact sport, and I have to agree with that.
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When pastors don't have rich spiritual lives with Christ, they become victimized by other models of success - models conveyed to them by their training, by their experience in the church, or just by our culture.
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Let your fiction grow out of the land beneath your feet.
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You can't forgive without loving. And I don't mean sentimentality. I don't mean mush. I mean having enough courage to stand up and say, 'I forgive. I'm finished with it.'
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The music teacher came twice a week to bridge the awful gap between Dorothy and Chopin.
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We must grow out of religion. It is either bugaboo, formalism, or hysteria. Besides, what proof is there that "the churches" know more about "God" than the Cockney sentry on duty outside the camp? We have only their say-so.
