I was skinny. I wore thick glasses. I had acne.
John Hickenlooper
Recitation: by Male by Female
When I write in Italian - this is just the metaphor that came to me immediately, and I really think this is what it is - I feel like I'm writing with my left hand. Because of that weakness, there is this enormous freedom that comes with it.
Jhumpa Lahiri
FreedomMeWritingThinkWeakness
Some readers may be disturbed that I wrote 'The Secret Life of Emily Dickinson' in Emily's own voice. I wasn't trying to steal her thunder or her music. I simply wanted to imagine my way into the head and heart of Emily Dickinson.
Jerome Charyn
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Christianity is not about the divine becoming human so much as it is about the human becoming divine. That is a paradigm shift of the first order.
John Shelby Spong
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The Lord is my Shepherd and he knows I'm gay.
Troy Perry
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I was going nine times a week. You get to a point where you don't really know who you are. You're running on high octane, and you'll take all comers in every arena because there was no police. Every arena, you'd take on everybody that would come in the ring.
Roddy Piper
PoliceWeekYouKnowRingHigh
I just want to be humble at all times.
Mike Tyson
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Pain is pain, joy is joy - you can't avoid bringing pieces of yourself into a role.
Joshua Leonard
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I have known exceptional people who have endured severe trials while others, at least on the surface, seem to have lived charmed lives.
Joseph B. Wirthlin
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The sum of the whole is plainly this: The nature of man considered in his single capacity, and with respect only to the present world, is adapted and leads him to attain the greatest happiness he can for himself in the present world.
Joseph Butler
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Being truthful is a necessity because when I'm not being truthful it takes a toll on me. I don't have any room for it in my life. I don't have an across-the-board opinion on honesty in relationships. But for me, personally, it's paramount.
Dax Shepard
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I don't look at it as mainstream country versus outsider.
Chris Stapleton
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Someone like Bruno Sammartino should never be a jobber on a video game, so and so forth. I think you have to pay respect.
Bret Hart
RespectGameThinkSomeoneYouPay
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