John Ortberg Quotes

Sin is very important to the soul because sin is what disintegrates the soul; it's what attacks the soul. Sin kind of is to the soul what cancer is to the body.

John Ortberg

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The CIA could not face up to the American people and admit that its former employees had conspired to assassinate the President; so from the moment Kennedy's heart stopped beating, the Agency attempted to sweep the whole conspiracy under the rug.

Jim Garrison

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When I was born, the wisdom was that homosexuality was an illness; that it was caused largely by somebody's mother, and a distorted relationship with the mother. And now, as I live my life - married to a husband, with kids - it's an identity.

Andrew Solomon

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Before me, music soundtracks were sort of afterthoughts.

Melvin Van Peebles

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Some city-council people are really awesome, but most are uninspired.

Travis Kalanick

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I had heard all sorts of stories about Woody Allen's directing - directorial approach. And some of them turned out to be myth, but one of them was that he doesn't rehearse, and another was that he doesn't really direct. If he doesn't like it... he cuts it out of the movie or even replaces you. And he doesn't talk to you.

Colin Firth

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My kids are my biggest motivation.

Bobby Lashley

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Independent films are where you really get to cut your teeth and have some fun and do the things that mainstream Hollywood doesn't want to do.

Anthony Anderson

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I'm certainly a real homebody. But the truth is that I understand that desire to, in a way, go join the circus. That's what got me out of Long Island and into show business. I was like, 'I'm just going to have an adventure. I want to be a person that isn't surrounded by their mail and their cat.'

Winnie Holzman

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A writer has to be driven crazy to help him to see. A writer needs his poisons.

Philip Roth

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Stephen Jones' hats are what we used to call 'creations'; extravagant, odd things for extravagant, odd people like Madonna or Lady Gaga. They're worn in a parallel universe.

Peter York

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A couple of weeks is a long time in American politics.

Peter Jennings

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I did 'Prodigal Son' at Manhattan Theatre Club.

Timothee Chalamet

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