Elaine Pagels Quotes
I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex and puzzling. But then I found I was thinking about a number of themes, one of which has to do with politics and religion.
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I don't mind you thinking I'm stupid, but don't talk to me like I'm stupid.
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We need more people working in the publishing industry itself who are people of colour.
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There is no easy way to get around horrible people on the Internet, and it's either just leave it or don't and get sucked into the whirlwind of it all.
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I know people think that a lot of sports stars are a little bit up themselves, but they all have their heroes, too.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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Unending was the stream, unending the misery, unending the sorrow.
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I was your C student. I paid attention in the classes that were about how to get elected.
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The single most important thing we can do to protect our communities from climate change is to reduce dangerous carbon pollution.
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It's no fun for me to cover a song and produce it the exact same way as it already exists. When I hear that happening, I have to say, 'What's the point?'
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The mark of higher education isn't the knowledge you accumulate in your head. It's the skills you gain about how to learn.
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In the Gulf region and nationwide, small businesses are an integral and crucial part of local economies and communities. They should not be overlooked.
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All of the charities we're involved with have touched me in one way or another on a personal level. There are about eight or nine charities that I support.
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If it seems like you're doing work when you're acting, then you're doing something wrong.
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All men dream, but not equally. Those who dream by night in the dusty recesses of their minds, wake in the day to find that it was vanity: but the dreamers of the day are dangerous men, for they may act on their dreams with open eyes, to make them possible.
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If you make a mistake, you should enjoy it.
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I put out records to this day that are not necessarily in a sequence of anything. Some could be written a while back, some not. There is no set pattern.
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I don't have the luxury of having a dog myself because I travel too much, but I love walking and cuddling somebody else's dog.
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As an American roughly the same age as Barack Obama, I will not be ridiculed or reduced to a stereotype. I want to age appropriately.
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Things can get very lovey and feasty with a bunch of stimulated hams.
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As a child, I would demand that visitors to our house tell me a story. I was intensely interested in everything - still am.
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A day will come when markets, open to trade, and minds, open to ideas, will become the sole battlefield.
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It's only by thinking even more crazily than philosophers do that you can solve their problems.
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I do not like January very much. It is too stationary. Not enough happens. I like the evidences of life, and in January there are too few of them.
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I never thought I would write about the Book of Revelation. It's so dense; it's so complex and puzzling. But then I found I was thinking about a number of themes, one of which has to do with politics and religion.
