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The Seventh Day Adventist Church believes that it was specially chosen by God to prepare the world for the Second Coming of His Son Jesus.
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Judaism is much more communal, and partly as a consequence of my religious switch, I am increasingly more suspicous of my previous view that what people do in the privacy of their own home is their business alone.
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At the time I perceived most religious men, particularly the pastors with all their talk about love, faith and relationship, as effeminate.
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I knew in my gut that there was something wrong with a system that couldn't fire its incompetents, and I had my share of incompetent college teachers.
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With 'The Mummy' it was a fantasy action adventure. You get taken away for a few hours and come out and feel revamped and ready to go into the world and enjoy your next day at work.
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I have decided to follow in my sinful ways, and have largely abandoned the increasingly religious life I was leading over the previous months, including several hours of Talmudic study a day.
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I now attend non-orthodox synagogues, and study little during the secular week.
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I believed that English-speaking people had a divine mission to civilize the world by making it western, democratic and Christian.
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My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.
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Whether you do a play in front of 100 people or a movie that one billion people see, you're still affecting people.
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I'm one of the guys who wants to watch the film completely done, with special effects, sound and music, because I tend to get disappointed if I watch it not fully done.
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At times during high school and college I wished to be a sportswriter.
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I've often thought that my lack of intimacy with those around me is the fault of those around me.
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If 'Black Balloon' had come out before 'The Mummy,' casting agents wouldn't have been able to see me for the first time in 'The Mummy.' But now that 'The Mummy' has come out before 'The Black Balloon,' that's a very good combination.
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You don't want one teacher going up against another because money's going to be out there.
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Even after we compensated for confounding factors like family history of depression, coffee drinking, or their year in medical school, we still came out with a very clear change in risk.
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Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.
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In my right-wing politics of the time, I held that unemployment was usually the fault of the unemployed.