Bernadette Roberts Quotes
In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.
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Katie Holmes is really amazing.
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Our fathers had their dreams; we have ours; the generation that follows will have its own. Without dreams and phantoms man cannot exist.
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I've never hidden the fact that I'm Jamaican; I will never disown my roots or influences.
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I think it no accident that most of those emigrating to America in the 19th century identified with the Democratic Party. We are a heterogeneous party made up of Americans of diverse backgrounds.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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Radical Islamists spread from Western Africa through the Middle East, all the way to South Asia to sub-Indian continent.
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Religion is absolutely unfathomable. Always and everywhere one can dig more deeply into infinities.
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Even as I think of myself as a 'rememberer,' I also know my memory is probably doing all this work to reconstruct a narrative where I come off better.
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I am not musically educated yet. I don't read - I make my own language that works for myself. But I play by ear.
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I've got two small kids. I want to make sure they grow up to be good people. Do they treat people well? Are they kind?
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If you bungle raising your children, I don't think whatever else you do matters very much.
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I don't want to die an old lady.
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The history of American women is all about leaving home - crossing oceans and continents, or getting jobs and living on their own.
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My dad always told me that the best way to get somebody to get at you is to talk bad about them to somebody else.
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I'm one of the first invention capitalists.
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The number of parts that were required were just prohibitive.
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I think whenever you come in, whenever you try to evolve a company, people will get nervous. But, if you articulate a clear vision, a clear mission to help them understand their roles in it and ask them to buy into the system, everyone will band together to make it happen.
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Ultimately I am an employee of a corporation, and that’s weird, and does contradict some of the things I believe in. But at the same time, I have to make a living.
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There's a new set of transformative technologies such as machine learning, AI, and virtual reality that will spawn another set of big tech franchises. But in terms of cultural impact, perhaps we are at peak Valley.
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The striking thing about the Precious Blood is the bond it establishes between love and suffering in our experience, a bond that has become so close that we have come to think of suffering accepted with joy as the most authentic sign of love with any depth at all.
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I think we all do: I think we wonder if we're supposed to be here, if we're doing the right thing, if we even want to be here. At least, I do all the time.
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I find that I'm extremely unattracted to anything that's humorless. There is writing that is entirely serious, and it doesn't ring true to me, because I think, oftentimes, life is very, very funny. Even the worst, most humiliating, savage disappointments in retrospect have elements of bleak humor.
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In some ways, all our experiences of God are beyond belief, because all conceptual beliefs pale when compared to the experiential reality.
