Elaine Pagels Quotes
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I know one man who was impotent who gave AIDS to his wife and the only thing they did was kiss.
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Was music my talent really? No, I don't think I was particularly talented.
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You know Texas is - even more now that Enron has bit the dust - it's held up on the back of small businesses.
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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I could not tell you the date of my mother's death. I could not tell you the date of my dad's death. These are not dates that I find significant.
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And then the conditions of safety - or lack of safety - for teachers in public schools, and the disparity between public schools and private schools is shameful.
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The fact is we can only love what we know personally. And we cannot know much. In public affairs, in the rebuilding of civilization, something less dramatic and emotional is needed, namely tolerance.
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The discovery of deuterium and the marked differences in the physical and chemical properties of hydrogen and deuterium, together with an efficient method for the separation of these isotopes, have opened an interesting field of research in several of the major branches of science.
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I think that people who get to a certain position, and then try to ferociously defend it or build on it, it's kind of a dead-end street. You see people becoming miserable that way.
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You get in before sunrise and you get out after sunset and you go home, eat and collapse. While you're aware of the ratings, you aren't prepared for the response of the fans.
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That you get booed belongs to professional sports.
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I truly believe that you have to bring more content to the table to survive in radio than saying, 'There was AC/DC, and here's Journey,' because computers can do that.
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'Good English' is whatever educated people talk; so that what is good in one place or time would not be so in another.
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I think I had the most fun making a movie with 'Dedication,' just because you knew that it was a passion project for everyone involved. We had X amount of days to shoot New York in the cold. No trailers. Just sort of kind of doing it guerilla style in a way.
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We, as entrepreneurs, can be held responsible for our actions every single day, not every election cycle.
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Capitalism is using its money; we socialists throw it away.
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I believe if more American children read the Ten Commandments and are taught what they mean, they will predictably engage in less crime.
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I mean, it's fun for us to talk about issues. You know, there's no one issue we spend a lot of time on probably, because he gets to do that all day with somebody else who's a lot more expert at issues than I am.
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I put my heart and soul into anything I take up.
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Because my dad was often gone, I never wanted to do anything that would make him stay away even longer. I became extra careful about what I said and how I said it, afraid he'd think I was angry or didn't love him. And the truth is, I was angry. I missed him and wanted him there.
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I hope that they are finding satisfaction. I'm in no way making a judgment. I know it doesn't make me happy.
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The main thing that gives me hope is the media. We have radio, TV, magazines, and books, so we have the possibility of learning from societies that are remote from us, like Somalia. We turn on the TV and see what blew up in Iraq or we see conditions in Afghanistan.
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I have spent most of my life working with mental illness. I have been president of the world's largest association of mental-illness workers, and I am all for more funding for mental-health care and research - but not in the vain hope that it will curb violence.
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These ancient stories in religion speak to our desire. But they move us toward hope.
