Charles Templeton Quotes
Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.
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I received my money from the treasury, I used to very early to go the clubs, but when the burden of looking after my children came upon me I tried to live a quite life, and save as much as I could.
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A lot of women are afraid of loneliness, so when they see a woman who can live alone, then they think, 'Hmm, I can do that.' But you need an example, and that is why I am proud to say I have divorced three husbands.
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I'm planning to be here forever, but I know at some point I'll probably have to give it up. If you live to 100, there's a very good chance you'll live forever. Because very few people die after 100.
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We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts.
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I don't have to prove my life. I just have to live.
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We want to counter the idea that Muslims and non-Muslims can't live together. This is not who we are or who we want to be.
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My voice hasn't changed really very much. I still do all my songs when I perform live and still do them in the original keys. I've been blessed with that ability to retain that.
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If one marries out of necessity, he will have to reincarnate to reach the point where he wants to live only for God.
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If we live good lives, the times are also good. As we are, such are the times.
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Every moral teacher or spiritual adviser gives injunctions about how to live wisely and well. But life is so complicated and full of uncertainty that rules seldom tell us quite what to do.
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I've had a lot of voices tell me what I should be making. Personally, I would much rather live and die by my own hand. If my stuff sucks, then at least I made it suck. I didn't allow some person, some old dude in a suit, to make it suck for me.
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I had been to New Mexico many times. I loved it. It's a very exotic, interesting, severely crazy environment. I don't know if I could live there all year. It's such an intense place.
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If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
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I seize all opportunities with two hands. Everything that's happened to me has taught me to live in the moment as much as possible.
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If I had my life to live all over again, I really think I would have been a fit person. Looking around me, I realise that the men and women who walked and ran and swam and played sport look better and feel better than the rest of us.
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Just because you live every waking moment with dreams of controlling other people doesn't mean the rest of us do.
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Censors are dead men set up to judge between life and death. For no live, sunny man would be a censor, he'd just laugh.
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In fact, Mr. Watson, it's a queer world, and the longer I live in it the queerer I find it. Once I thought it would be a good idea to regulate things myself and run the world as it ought to be run; but I gave it up long ago. The world's a stage, they say; but the show ain't always amusing, by a long chalk, and sometimes I wish I didn't have a reserved seat.
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If I could live my life all over I'd do everything the same; the film in my camera would remain the same; there's no way lord, to leave this love behind.
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From an early age I didn't buy into the value systems of working hard in a nine-to-five job. I thought creativity, friendship and loyalty and pushing the boundaries of what was acceptable was much more interesting.
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If you think about racing too much you may just lose it a little bit.
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'Hamilton' and 'Shuffle Along' are closely connected because the ensembles are all friends, and they both deal with historical figures and the impact they've made on American life.
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If we have an economic crisis in the Western world it's because the government makes up 50 percent or more of the economy. This is a cancer that is taking away people's freedom.
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Christianity does not remove you from the world and its problems; it makes you fit to live in it, triumphantly and usefully.
