Carolyn Custis James Quotes

The months of political campaigning have given us vivid reminders that women's rights are under constant assault all over the globe. Tragically even the church has some self-examination to do, where often women are perceived as a threat or viewed as temptresses.

Carolyn Custis James

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• I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

  

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• There is another old poet whose name I do not now remember who said, 'Truth is the daughter of Time.'

  

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• I don't really yell at people.

  

  Nancy Reagan
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• Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• I guess you could say I'm a model slash hotelier slash actor slash screenwriter.

  

  Vikram Chatwal
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• Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• You know, every time a summer movie comes out, people think they're gonna get rich off of the merchandise.

  

  Aaron McGruder
  • People
  • Time
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• The cheapest natural gas in the world is in the United States.

  

  T. Boone Pickens
  • World
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• The writer is more concerned to know than to judge.

  

  W. Somerset Maugham
  • Know
  • Judge
  • Writer

• I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

  

  Idris Elba
  • People
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• I get no satisfaction just showing myself in every corner of the world every week.

  

  Daniel Barenboim
  • World
  • Myself
  • Week

• It is not to be wondered that men have worshiped the ocean, for in his depths they have seen mirrored the image of Eternity - of Infinity. Here they have seen the symbol of God's great plan of oneness with His creatures, for the sea is the union of all infinite particles, and it takes the whole to make the one.

  

  Elbert Hubbard
  • Great
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• …jumped-up commercials pretending, too late, to be the ruling class..

  

  Anthony Burgess
  • Up

• How few of our young English impressionists knew the difference between a palette and a picture! However, I believe that Walter Sickert did - sly dog!

  

  Aubrey Beardsley
  • Believe
  • Picture
  • English

• We Americans have no commission from God to police the world.

  

  Benjamin Harrison
  • World
  • God
  • Police

• Losing Bogey was horrible, obviously. Because he was young. And because he gave me my life. I wouldn't have had a - I don't know what would have happened to me if I hadn't met him - I would have had a completely different kind of life. He changed me, he gave me everything. And he was an extraordinary man.

  

  Lauren Bacall
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• Writing is, of course, a solitary occupation. But for many writers, myself included, it's through writing that we make certain vital connections.

  

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• Many who have never had an opportunity of knowing any more about mathematics confound it with arithmetic, and consider it an arid science. In reality, however, it is a science which requires a great amount of imagination.

  

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• I love men in bed when they are sleeping. But then they have to go and wake up.

  

  Daphne Zuniga
  • Up
  • Men

• I was born in the summer of 1970, the last of five boys stretched over eight years. My parents were a struggling young couple who had been married one afternoon under a shade tree by a preacher without a church. No guests or fancy dress, just the two of them, lost in love, and the preacher taking a break from working on a house.

  

  Charles M. Blow
  • House
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• As a young man, I was a navy officer in Vietnam. I made $320 a month and would always give away $50 a month to a family I felt that was in greater need than me, in addition to my tithing to my church. I've just always felt in my heart, coming from a very humble background, that there are plenty of people who need a break in life.

  

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  • Family

• The months of political campaigning have given us vivid reminders that women's rights are under constant assault all over the globe. Tragically even the church has some self-examination to do, where often women are perceived as a threat or viewed as temptresses.

  

  Carolyn Custis James
  • Church
  • Assault
  • Globe