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John Ortberg Quotes

It strikes me that presidential campaigns can often bring out the worst as well as the best in us.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: clergyman
Nationality: american
Birth: May 5, 1957

Topics

Best Me Worst Out Bring Well

I want everything to be an honest extension of me. What better way than me talking? It's a direct connection with everyone. With film and television, you make great projects, but stand-up is the thing that is completely yours.

Jerrod Carmichael

Great Me Better Talking You Want

A radical inner transformation and rise to a new level of consciousness might be the only real hope we have in the current global crisis brought on by the dominance of the Western mechanistic paradigm.

Hope Transformation Rise New Crisis

I have a very commercial appetite. I don't like to do high-brow things.

Sigourney Weaver

Things Like Commercial Appetite Very

You don't realise how cool your culture is until you get out of that phase of trying to fit in.

Culture Cool Trying You Out Get

For me, the perfect romantic suspense hero has got to be tough on the outside but tender at his core. A take-charge kind of guy who has his own inner strength and a strong sense of right and wrong - which might not dovetail with the conventional wisdom. I mean, he might bend the law if he thinks the ends justify the means.

Strength Wisdom Hero Romantic Law

Travelers never think that they are the foreigners.

Travel Think Never Travelers

Tintin comics evoke Bermuda, where my parents doled out comics for good behavior and my grandmother taught me how to shuffle cards.

Rosecrans Baldwin

Good Parents Me Behavior Cards Out

Queen Latifah was writing poetry. Maybe Latifah's 'Ladies First' and Angelou's 'Phenomenal Woman' are the same thing, a generation apart.

Woman Queen Poetry Writing First

Religion is part of the human make-up. It's also part of our cultural and intellectual history. Religion was our first attempt at literature, the texts, our first attempt at cosmology, making sense of where we are in the universe, our first attempt at health care, believing in faith healing, our first attempt at philosophy.

Christopher Hitchens

Faith Health History Religion Care

If I can get some student interested in science, if I can show members of the general public what's going on up there in the space program, then my job's been done.

Christa McAuliffe

Science Job Space I Can Student Up

The blurring of fact and fiction has great commercial potential, which is bound to be corrupting in historical terms.

Great Potential Fiction Historical

If you're going to spend most of your time in your democracy figuring out how to get oil by intervening into other people's countries and insuring that you follow it with military might, we think there's an alternative. Which would be renewable energy.

Time People Democracy Energy Think

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