John Shelby Spong Quotes

A lot of people hear me attacking their certainty. I don't have any interest in doing that. I'm interested in penetrating the meaning of certainty.

John Shelby Spong

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I studied theater in college, and I really wanted to be an actress and play a lot of different roles. Then I made landing on a television comedy my main focus.

Jenna Fischer

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If there is one great power, and the great power has taken upon itself the right to preempt and is choosing for itself when and in what circumstances it's going to do that, obviously it leads people in the rest of the world to wonder how far this doctrine extends.

John Lewis Gaddis

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Instead of arguing about whether we're allowed to describe Muslim terrorists as 'Muslim terrorists,' why don't we argue about whether it's a good idea to be letting in so many immigrants who then blow up the Boston Marathon?

Ann Coulter

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I used to hitchhike a lot. I'd come home on the train from New York, and there'd be no cabs, but people would pick me right up and take me to my door because they recognised me. It was like a car service. I never really had a bad experience hitchhiking.

John Waters

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As an economics undergraduate, I also worked on a part-time basis in Cambridge, Massachusetts, for a company that was advising customers about portfolio decisions, writing reports.

Merton Miller

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The day I'm able to be debt-free is the day I'm going to be the happiest guy around.

Steve Garvey

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Very good cooks who are employed as 'chefs' rarely refer to themselves as 'chefs.' They refer to themselves as 'cooks.'

Alton Brown

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Any great warrior is also a scholar, and a poet, and an artist.

Steven Seagal

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When an individual is kept in a situation of inferiority, the fact is that he does become inferior.

Simone de Beauvoir

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One day I would love to do rock a gig on the moon - how rad would that be? Isn't Richard Branson flying planes to outer space? Motley Crue could be the first band to play on the moon.

Tommy Lee

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I've been very lucky with my career and don't feel like I'm being typecast in the same role over and over again.

Rose McIver

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I never look at myself online, and I don't read gossip Web sites.

Jonathan Groff

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