Darrel Ray Quotes

Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children and others to go unchallenged for centuries.

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• I think it's a mistake to try to pin down one particular reason for a person's personality. Don't we all, for many reasons, act differently in different circumstances and with different people?

  

  Gary Frank
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• I do not take steroids. I never have. It's sad to me that people want to point fingers. I don't do that. That's not me. I wouldn't feel like a human being.

  

  Jackie Joyner-Kersee
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• We need more children raised in the optimum situation, which is between a mom and a dad bonded together for life.

  

  Sam Brownback
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• The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil.

  

  Hannah Arendt
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• Children are educated by what the grown-up is and not by his talk.

  

  Carl Jung
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• We are all seduced by charismatic people, whether it's in your office or in the bus or in the train. There are people who just, like, come through the door, and everybody turns around and looks at them and feels drawn to them.

  

  Edgar Ramirez
  • People
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• A lot of people have the misconception that, as a Muslim woman, I am somehow against women wearing bikinis. No, I want women to feel comfortable and confident in whatever they wear.

  

  Halima Aden
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• I've led a charmed life. I've known people who have been depressed, and I've never had that.

  

  Earl Hamner, Jr.
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• When the gun lobby fights gun-control legislation, its logic is clear: it does not like laws that prevent people from owning or using guns.

  

  Adam Cohen
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• We should all feel confident in our intelligence. By the way, intelligence to me isn't just being book-smart or having a college degree; it's trusting your gut instincts, being intuitive, thinking outside the box, and sometimes just realizing that things need to change and being smart enough to change it.

  

  Tabatha Coffey
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• I was watching 'Deal or No Deal' on YouTube recently, and I bawled when the contestant won £250,000. I think I just like watching people achieve their dreams.

  

  Katarina Johnson-Thompson
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• When leaders are no longer beholden to the people who elected them, corruption results and the recruitment of extremists becomes easier.

  

  Iqbal Quadir
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• The huge difference in my lifetime is that you can just go up to somebody and make a pass. You couldn't do that in the 1950s if you were gay. There were secret handshakes, a secret language. There was nowhere you could go to be romantic outside of people's houses.

  

  Ian Mckellen
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• Sure, I could have lots of people who do the cooking, the driving, all that jazz - but I would be unhappy. I wouldn't want my children raised that way.

  

  Kate Winslet
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• The worst crime against working people is a company which fails to operate at a profit.

  

  Samuel Gompers
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• By concentrating on what is good in people, by appealing to their idealism and their sense of justice, and by asking them to put their faith in the future, socialists put themselves at a severe disadvantage.

  

  Ian Mcewan
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• People make music to get a reaction. Music is communication.

  

  Yoko Ono
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• All I can do is seek the information that'll make me stronger, that'll help me overcome my toxic masculinity, my male privilege, because that's something you never think about. You don't think about other people.

  

  Nate Parker
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• There just is exponentially more money in the movie business than in the music business. As a result there are more people involved in the creative process.

  

  Adam Duritz Matt Malley
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• I'm quick to be upset. My feelings are close to the surface. There is not much gap between a thought and a feeling with me. It makes it difficult for some people. I feel too much.

  

  Peter Morgan
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• Look at the real prodigies, and I look like nothing compared to them.

  

  Orson Welles
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• My career has been successful, but it's been a grind of hard work.

  

  Emmanuelle Chriqui
  • Work
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  • Grind

• I started my own Pies Descalzos/Barefoot Foundation when I was 18. We provide education to vulnerable children in Colombia and other developing countries. I am an avid believer that education - and especially early childhood development - is the key to breaking the cycle of poverty.

  

  Shakira
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  • Childhood

• Religion has the capacity to silence critical thinking and create blindness in entire groups of people. It can infect the minds of followers so completely as to allow the most egregious sexual acts against children and others to go unchallenged for centuries.

  

  Darrel Ray
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