George Trumbull Ladd Quotes
To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.
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I always say three things make a writer: inspiration, obviously; perspiration, doing the work. But the third is desperation. I'm not really fit for anything else, or to have a real job. That fear drives me. The pressure has always been self inflicted.
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Let life happen to you. Believe me: life is in the right, always.
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I never thought of myself as a writer about religion until a religion came after me.
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I have hundreds and hundreds of people from Brazil, Chile, Columbia and Argentina, every day, buying my music and telling me about it online.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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I love to read poetry but I haven't written anything that I'm willing to show anybody.
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The mentality we have in India is not very sporting.
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I was never really a comic-book fanatic.
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Shopping turns me off.
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I really love Hitchcock; I think he was a complete genius, to me one of the best directors. Such a sense of how to put things together.
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One thing I do understand is that people get scared when I start thinking out loud.
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And all at once I lost my breathAnd all at once was scared to deathFor all at once I owned the earth and sky.Now I've met Miss JonesWe'll keep on meeting till we die,Yes, Miss Jones and I.
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The tolls for the maintenance of a high road, cannot with any safety be made the property of private persons.
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It's probably better to have him inside the tent pissing out, than outside the tent pissing in.
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A real idea keeps changing and appears in many places.
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The North American Free Trade Agreement marked a fundamental change in the global trade scheme.
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I went to the Tokyo Film Festival in Japan because I love Japanese cinema.
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We can drift along as though there were still a cold war, wasting hundreds of billions of dollars on weapons that will never be used, ignoring the problems of people in this country and around the world, being one of the worst environmental violators on earth, standing against any sort of viable programs to protect the world's forests or to cut down on acid rain or the global warming or ozone depletion. We can ignore human rights violations in other countries, or we can take these things on as true leaders ought to and accept the inspiring challenge of America for the future.
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Who keeps the tavern and serves up the drinks? The peasant. Who squanders and drinks up money belonging to the peasant commune, the school, the church? The peasant. Who would steal from his neighbor, commit arson, and falsely denounce another for a bottle of vodka? The peasant.
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Every comic went through their Mitch Hedberg phase - the glasses, the hair in the face - and you knew immediately when they were doing it.
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A lot of people in MMA do part-time jobs.
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To accept with unquestioning faith, or to refuse to reconsider any particular view held by the Church in the past, is as unreasonable as it is unsafe. The faith of the Church is a progressive affair.
