Elaine Pagels Quotes
I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular relationship to government 2,000 years ago, and those people were the Jews.
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And also, I know I have this responsibility or mission to show people, to encourage them to live their dream, too.
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I like talking one-on-one to everyone. I find it really sort of cathartic and interesting to hear people's opinions.
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People realize this man knows what the hell's going on and nobody else does.
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On a personal level, there are many people who have meant a great deal to me. My father and mother were certainly of vital importance, not only in themselves but because they created a world for me to revolt against.
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What I find so interesting about people is the choices they make, and how that effects their behavior, their sense of self and their relationships.
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I had a world of people who were raising me; it was like a little village.
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I see my fans as music lovers. I really love that. There's no age group or demographic. It's people of all ages and backgrounds. Country people and non-country people. I wanted to make music across the board.
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The entertainment medium of film is particularly tuned to the present imaginations of people at large. A lot of fiction is intensely nostalgic.
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The best thing about being on the road in general is just playing every single night in front of people that are genuinely fans of your music.
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I understood, through rehab, things about creating characters. I understood that creating whole people means knowing where we come from, how we can make a mistake and how we overcome things to make ourselves stronger.
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Startling, and alarming to many, is the conclusion that follows from these data that if all people were treated the same, most average race differences would not disappear.
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To be honest, accents are one of those things for me, personally, that usually come quite naturally by just listening to the people.
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I went to Yugoslavia to make a movie. People saw me there and asked me to do a movie in Germany. And that led to a movie in Italy. Before I knew it, I was in Europe for most of the next 10 years.
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My relationship to food is that of an acrophobe to a bridge. Unease masks a desire to jump.
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You don't have to buy from anyone. You don't have to work at any particular job. You don't have to participate in any given relationship. You can choose.
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In France there are, I think, less than one per cent of people who are too skinny.
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This is a very important relationship we have with Russia, the relationship over the nuclear arsenal that they have obviously is important. They're a very powerful country.
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At Tiger Stadium, the dugouts are so low that you walk in and hit your head on the ceiling. People would say, 'Don't feel bad. Ty Cobb did the same thing.'
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Listen - of course money changes everything, but so does sunlight, and so does food: These are powerful but neutral energy sources, neither inherently good nor evil but shaped only by the way we use them.
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A character to me can't be contrived. I don't like to contrive characters. They have to have an element of truth.
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It is my great misfortune that I have to measure your love by the money gifts you give for Daridranarayana.
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I wanna be one of those special guys. Jimi Hendrix wasn't afraid of who he was. That's the part I emulate.
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..to gather under a new banner.. ..that the poets of yesterday's Futurism change the means of battle with thought, content, and logic.. ..advance Alogism after Futurism.
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I had been taught that the separation between religion and politics happened in the Enlightenment. But there were people who tried to create a secular relationship to government 2,000 years ago, and those people were the Jews.
