David Blankenhorn Quotes
Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does any religious conviction justify denying lesbians and gays a basic legal promise of non-discrimination in hiring, public accommodations, and housing? Surely the answer to this question is no. Correcting that inequity would begin the process of recognizing that both sides - gay couples and religious objectors - have rights and that reasonable accommodation is possible only when both sides have something to gain.David Blankenhorn
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I like to be underdressed rather than overdressed. For an event or a premiere, it's fun to dress up more - then I like to experiment.
Gabriella Wilde -
You need to understand the batsman, where he plays his shot usually, which is his release shot, and then change the angle, vary the pace, line and length. You cannot always react after being at the receiving end.
Harbhajan Singh -
Many great founders have one or more big failures on their track record. What makes them great is that they eventually succeed despite that.
Balaji Srinivasan -
There is a sound that comes from gospel music that doesn't come from anything else. It is a sound of peace. It is a sound of, 'I'm going to make it through all of this.'
Yolanda Adams -
Sex and drugs and rock and roll.
Ian Dury -
That's the great thing about Apple: it's very focused on the things that we know how to do very well and not try to extend ourselves to areas that we know very little about or don't have a lot of expertise in.
Eddy Cue
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Is there a poem that never reaches words And one that chaffers the time away? Is the poem both peculiar and general? There’s a meditation there, in which there seemsTo be an evasion, a thing not apprehended or Not apprehended well. Does the poet Evade us, as in a senseless element?
Wallace Stevens -
We cannot let the bogeyman of al-Qaida and extremism be used to stall historic change in our country
Tawakkol Karman -
I can never look now at the Milky Way without wondering from which of those banked clouds of stars the emissaries are coming. If you will pardon so commonplace a simile, we have set off the fire alarm and have nothing to do but to wait. I do not think we will have to wait for long
Arthur C. Clarke -
The way you get a better world is, you don’t put up with substandard anything.
Joe Strummer The Clash -
So I figured in keeping with the record, I'd do something off the wall which is show up for free and wing it... I don't know, I'm just going to play some songs. I think it'll be fun.
Paul Westerberg The Replacements -
I was worried in the '80s that the best abstract painting had become obsessed with materiality, and painterly gestures and materiality were up against the wall.
Frank Stella
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I knew I couldn't solve it. Because I couldn't figure out what made her drink when things were going well.
David Gest -
Right now, after having had back surgery, I am finally back to running again.
Frank Shorter -
I sometimes think I should go back to school to learn French and music, but who would have me?
Bette Midler -
While I might not agree with everything Donald Trump says, I proudly stand with Donald Trump.
Darryl Glenn -
I promise you, every insurgent, freedom fighter, and stray gunman in Iraq who we arrested knew the ropes, knew that the way out was to announce he had been tortured by the Americans, ill treated, or prevented from reading the Koran or eating his breakfast or watching the television.
Marcus Luttrell -
If you're going to have a cabin fever, have a big cabin, you know.
Joe Cocker
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Mission accomplished, we didn't have any problems as far as violence goes.
Dr. Dre -
The Lord never lays more on us, in the way of chastisement, than our state of heart makes needful; so that whilst He smites with the one hand, He supports with the other.
George Muller -
I never thought I'd get a chance to sing with Wilson Pickett but we did.
Eddie Floyd -
There's a way in which filmmaking is a director's medium and television is a writer's medium, so even as TV gets more cinematic, it's still guided by the writer.
Alan Taylor -
What I have said is that I think the federal government and we as a society have come too far in trying to separate good organizations that perform good functions for people just based on the fact one has a religious association and one doesn't.
Ken Buck -
Legislators in Kansas, Arizona and 23 other states who are properly determined to protect religious freedom can begin by asking themselves: Does any religious conviction justify denying lesbians and gays a basic legal promise of non-discrimination in hiring, public accommodations, and housing? Surely the answer to this question is no. Correcting that inequity would begin the process of recognizing that both sides - gay couples and religious objectors - have rights and that reasonable accommodation is possible only when both sides have something to gain.
David Blankenhorn