Emily Raboteau Quotes
I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn't be confined to organized religion.
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People are not wrong in observing Caste. In my view, what is wrong is their religion, which has inculcated this notion of Caste. If this is correct, then obviously the enemy, you must grapple with is not the people who observe Caste, but the Shastras which teach them this religion of Caste.
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I am a Muslim. I am born to Muslim parents. I have a Muslim son. I have been imprisoned and witnessed torture for my previous understanding of my religion.
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Every religion there's something foul going on.
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Elements and birthdays have been intertwined for me since boyhood, when I learned about atomic numbers.
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The acquisition of knowledge - knowledge of both the world and of their own religion - will inoculate young people against extremist ideologies.
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The truth is that killing innocent people is always wrong - and no argument or excuse, no matter how deeply believed, can ever make it right. No religion on earth condones the killing of innocent people; no faith tradition tolerates the random killing of our brothers and sisters on this earth.
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Whenever possible, I use local, fresh ingredients, just because it tastes and feels better to eat an egg or a tomato or a hamburger that wasn't flown halfway around the world, that didn't travel on a truck and get stuck in traffic jams, that hasn't been sitting in a supermarket's refrigerator case for days.
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One of the things I was so glad that happened to me on Knots was that I learned to relax.
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Yes, actually ever since I saw his films and tried to write about them, Sirk's been in everything I've done. Not Sirk himself, but what I've learned from his work.
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The Constitution provides for freedom of religion, not freedom from religion.
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Then I learned how to do wraparounds and things like that. I had no experience.
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I coach soccer, and my wife and I are very involved in our kids' lives. Our family is busy with doctor appointments, soccer practice, school, work, travel, vacation... life.
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A good story can travel in time and borders; it hits you no matter where you are.
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If all things were made through Him, clearly so must the splendid revelations have been which were made to the fathers and prophets, and became to them the symbols of the sacred mysteries of religion.
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I've worked with a band, and it's nice to have someone to travel around with, but I didn't like it as well on stage.
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Religion and ritual can be vehicles for entering stillness. It says in Psalm 46:10, 'Be still, and know that I am God.' But they are still just vehicles. The Buddha called his teaching a raft: You don't need to carry it around with you after you've crossed the river.
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I've always said that I use my voice as an instrument. It was something I created myself, and I said, 'Have voice, will travel.'
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Sex is the mysticism of materialism and the only possible religion in a materialistic society.
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Leadership cannot really be taught. It can only be learned.
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You can always find ways to make it different, as long as it's a really well-written script and well-written character.
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Hillary Clinton has been in politics for the same reason I am - because we can improve other people's lives by doing this work.
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We all want to leave our children the Garden of Eden and we wind up giving them hardscrabble.
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You can't put out fire with fire.
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I learned from James Baldwin that one can be a novelist, essayist, and activist, combined. That being critical of one's country is a way of loving it. That travel is crucial for perspective. That faith needn't be confined to organized religion.
