Salman Rushdie Quotes
The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
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It doesn't take a lot of strength to hang on. It takes a lot of strength to let go.
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I feel like if I live the Christian life, then the people should be able to see it in my everyday actions.
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I always thought George Bush was more oblivious than mean, but oblivious can quickly go to mean.
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Australians don't have a preconceived notion of what things have to be... we can go on a fantastic journey.
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Never go out to meet trouble. If you just sit still, nine cases out of ten, someone will intercept it before it reaches you.
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What I want is to try and get across the idea that reading for pleasure is so beneficial. And turn children on who have maybe been switched off reading or never found a love of it in the first place.
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Murderers, in general, are people who are consistent, people who are obsessed with one idea and nothing else.
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I didn't like the idea of being foolish, but I learned pretty soon that it was essential to fail and be foolish.
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I like to release music the way I feel it, as opposed to having a date. The idea of dates, boxes, categories are very scary for me.
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In all my years of baseball, I have always expected to be traded. I never liked the idea.
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I still have not given up the idea of becoming a journalist, but at 17 I decided to follow my heart and stay in Los Angeles with my girlfriend as opposed to going to Johns Hopkins.
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I am the biggest geek and fan of film and TV, and I just go through phases.
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The whole idea that what is not normal should be kept secret – that's really distasteful to me.
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I went to a Christian school, and as a kid, we weren't allowed to really watch anything violent, even 'Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles.'
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We have this historic problem that we have a quarter of our population, the people of Quebec, who have never signed on to the Constitution. That can't go on forever.
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I couldn't spell anything. I couldn't remember anything, but I could go to a movie and I knew who starred in it, who directed it, everything.
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I'm still not used to the idea of being the youngest circumnavigator.
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My favorite 'Mister Rogers' episodes were always the ones where Mr. Rogers would go into the community.
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The idea of connecting all people to knowledge and each other is enduring.
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Leala's breath was "like a cello sawing away against the bouncing-bow contrabasses of her heartbeat.
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I think it is really important that people at least have some potentially difficult discussions about what their expectations are - and not just financially - prior to getting married. It should really even happen prior to people living together or casting their lot together.
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If Christ had not gone to the cross and suffered in our stead, the just for the unjust, there would not have been a spark of hope for us. There would have been a mighty gulf between ourselves and God, which no man ever could have passed.
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When a man sees something desirable, he must reflect on the fact that with time it could come to involve what is detestable. When he sees something that is beneficial, he should reflect that sooner or later it, too, could come to involve harm.
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The Christian Coalition is still about Christianity, even if it's an idea of Christianity that many Christians might not go along with.
