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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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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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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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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I don't think in terms of legacy or that kind of stuff. I've always thought that'll take care of itself if I did everything right on a day-to-day basis.
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I didn't own a cell phone for a long time. I was late in the game on that.
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I just had a normal African childhood; we played football a lot, but it was always in the street and always without shoes. Boots were very expensive, and when there are seven in your family, and you say you want to buy a pair, your father wants to kill you.
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I love going to movies by myself.
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No proceeding is better than that which you have concealed from the enemy until the time you have executed it. To know how to recognize an opportunity in war, and take it, benefits you more than anything else. Nature creates few men brave, industry and training makes many. Discipline in war counts more than fury.
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'Grbavica' is first of all a story about love, about love that is not pure because it has been mixed with hate, disgust, trauma, despair.
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Architecture is not merely national but clearly has local ties in that it is rooted in the earth.
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I love to read, and TV seemed more like a good book, with these incredible series unfolding like chapters in a novel.
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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.
