A. J. Jacobs Quotes
It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
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I'm a pretty girl who's a model who doesn't suck as an actress.
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At 21 years old, I could produce 400 people like that.
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When theology erodes and organization crumbles, when the institutional framework of religion begins to break up, the search for a direct experience which people can feel to be religious facilitates the rise of cults.
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The whole idea of television news or any kind of news is to inform people about things they need to know about.
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It's enough to make a small shift within and a small action in the world. Collectively these have a huge effect.
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Maybe it will be a great thing when the Baby Boomers finally die out. In real life, it's not a matter of the good guys or the bad guys. Rather, it's big numbers and small numbers that do the counting.
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Period drama is such a huge umbrella term: it seems to cover everything from Claudius to something from the 1920s.
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I'm reading today because of 'Encyclopedia Brown.'
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When I first started in film, I was terrified of the camera.
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You don't have to have a great voice to sing, just a distinctive one. But make sure you say the words clearly and tell a story.
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A person standing in front of an audience without enthusiasm for his subject and his actions is disconnected from his spirit.
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Following the creation concept that creation processes differed from preservation processes, it is suggested that God endowed each created kind, at the time of its creation, with potential for vast variety.
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I'm a romantic; a sentimental person thinks things will last, a romantic person hopes against hope that they won't.
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Time will tell how you rate against the rest of the competition. I'll let everyone else worry about championships. I'm going to worry about qualifying at Pomona.
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When I was in law school, there was a used book store nearby. I picked up a Harlequin romance and read it. It was stress relieving.
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I don't think you'll ever get enough picking.
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The world has become so complex that the idea of a power in which everything comes together and can be controlled in a centralized way is now erroneous.
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You've got to be willing to put the time into seeing who's got talent and who's going to do a great job.
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Anyway I will go same road because I, I was born in gymnastics. This is my, how to say, my life and my duty.
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You want to enjoy life, don't you? If you get your job done quickly and your job is fun, that's good isn't it? That's the purpose of life, partly. Your life is better.
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I wouldn't say no to other kinds of musical opportunities. I guess that it just depends on what it was or what it required me to do, and if I felt that it compromised my own soul.
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You know how you can tell that you're getting really old? Nobody says the word 'death' around you anymore.
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I think what's at risk is kids losing touch with being a kid. Being a kid is being defined differently than it was when you didn't have all this stuff you could put in front of your face.
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It comes back to the old question: How can the Bible be so wise in some places and so barbaric in others? And why should we put any faith in a book that includes such brutality?
