Elaine Pagels Quotes
What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.
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When I first came out, country wouldn't touch me because I was way too rock, and rock wouldn't touch me because I was definitely country.
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Imagine if someone like John Lennon or Bob Marley, Sid Vicious, Picasso, whomever, were doing their work, and some corporation, some CEO, some branding entity was saying to you, 'Well, you can do that, but you've got to remove this aspect of your work.' There would no longer be that purity anymore.
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I studied engineering in the national university, the Universidad Autonoma, in San Ildefonso. There is art everywhere, murals on the walls. It's beautiful.
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I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships.
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I got into journalism not to be a journalist but to try to change American foreign policy. I'm a corny person. I was a dreamer predating my journalistic life, so I got into journalism as a means to try to change the world.
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One of the things that's, I think, hard in television is that there's a certain sameness to a lot of television because you're working in a very constricted box, and the box is defined by the amount of money you have to spend and the amount of time you have to get ready.
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You can always cope with the present moment, but you cannot cope with something that is only a mind projection - you cannot cope with the future.
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I think my favorite thing is songwriting.
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California is a queer place in a way, it has turned its back on the world, and looks into the void Pacific. It is absolutely selfish, very empty, but not false, and at least, not full of false effort.
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One of the hardest things is to create hope.
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I play a Fender Jazzmaster and three stacks and a combo, two old Marshall Plexis and a Hiwatt combo and a Hiwatt combo with Marshall cabs.
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I always thought being a gamer and someone who had a sense of responsibility to the game and to my teammates was the honorable thing.
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The young are so old, they are born with their fingers crossed.
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Thus would I double my life's fading space;For he that runs it well, runs twice his race.
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'Hugo Chávez is going to make Venezuela a launching pad for communist infiltration and Muslim extremism all over the continent... he is an out-of-control dictator... a dangerous enemy to our south, controlling a huge pool of oil that could hurt us very badly.' 6
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Man has traditionally ruled the social sphere; feminism tells him to move over and share his power. But woman rules the sexual and emotional sphere, and there she has no rival. Victim ideology, a caricature of social history, blocks women from recognition of their dominance in the deepest, most important realm.
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No we won't - no we won't break the law Sharon.
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If you never condemned you would never need to forgive.
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Look, the sun is a sort of bribe, you know, and so is a thunderstorm... in the conspiracy of everything to continue to exist.
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I love a lot of reggae, but I've never had the opportunity to play with any reggae guys.
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Congressmen are not evil people, they're mostly sort of seismographs with antennae; they're waiting - they're more worried about losing their jobs than Assistant Deans of Men in the Ivy League.
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Circumcision, an archaic ritual mutilation that has no justification whatever and no place in a civilized society.
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It's time to end the cruel slaughter of whales and leave these magnificent creatures alone.
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What survived as orthodox Christianity did so by suppressing and forcibly eliminating a lot of other material.
