Marilynne Robinson Quotes
I like major theology. I like Karl Barth, and I like John Calvin, and I like Martin Luther. The scale of thinking and the power of integration that they're capable of from thinking in that scale is something that's really unique to theology.

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I was really lucky to work at CBS news. I was blessed to be able to live my dream in many ways at CBS news.
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When the best leader's work is done the people say, 'We did it ourselves.'
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When a 300-pound person like me is playing, I'm supposed to drink at least a gallon of water a day.
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One of the great things about being a writer/journalist is that my boss loves me to go out and do features on being someone else. I did a feature on Kate Middleton, where I went to an incredible fancy state home in the countryside, put on a wedding dress and posed for engagement pictures with a fake Prince William.
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I'm very English. I'm white. I mean, I'm so pale. With spray tans they start peeling and start getting really dirty looking.
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You know, as any parent will say, you know, life happens.
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You have to realize that up until about 1959, Africa was dominated by the colonial powers. And by the colonial powers of Europe having complete control over Africa, they projected Africa always in a negative light - jungles, savages, cannibals, nothing civilized.
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Ah, I am thinking people put more in their prayers than was ever put in them by God.
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It's such a weird thing: to sit and look at yourself is so distracting to the psyche. It would be like me standing in front of a mirror and looking at myself all day, trying to find a flaw.
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Seemed like everything I tried to do in broadcasting and as a player before that turned out successfully. I was succeeding. I got to the top of the heap in every facet of broadcasting.
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I missed quite a lot of school because I was working from the age of 11.
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I believe that my parents did wonderful things for us.
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True Yankees fans know an up-and-coming player when they see one.
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All paths are the same, leading nowhere. Therefore, pick a path with heart!
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I had throat surgery. We had to check that out and make sure it wasn't cancerous. I had a polyp on my vocal cord, so I had that taken out.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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I believe in censorship. I made a fortune out of it.
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Where we love is home - home that our feet may leave, but not our hearts.
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I always like to do the things that I think are right. I am not trying to be a model, I am trying to be myself and do the right things. If what I am doing is a model, or is an example, is the right example, I am very happy, but I don't pretend that.
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When all else is gone, God is left, and nothing changes Him.
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I can't rank anything. I mean, how could anyone possibly say what their favourite piece of music is? I don't have the ability or the desire to categorise things of that nature.
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You are what you wear. I wear something different everyday.
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The world is MADE up of language. We can SAY that the world is composed of little demons doing calisthenics, each one the size of a pissant's eyebrow.... Or we can SAY the world is made of tiny wave mechanical packets of matter hurling through space at near the speed of light.... But notice that what we get each time are WORDS.
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I like major theology. I like Karl Barth, and I like John Calvin, and I like Martin Luther. The scale of thinking and the power of integration that they're capable of from thinking in that scale is something that's really unique to theology.