Tony Campolo Quotes

I propose that the government should get out of the business of marrying people and, instead, only give legal status to civil unions.

Tony Campolo

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A belief is purely an individual matter, and you cannot and must not organize it. If you do, it becomes dead, crystallized; it becomes a creed, a sect, a religion, to be imposed on others.

Jiddu Krishnamurti

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If the FBI is now in charge of bad taste, we're all doomed.

Jerry Della Femina

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Something in me was instinctively drawn to the life of a misunderstood, brilliant and wilful artist. I wanted to become one.

John Lloyd Young

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I remember being out here at the Sunset Marquis, and whoever knocked on the door, I would take that picture that I was writing and I would put that in the typewriter, so when I had the meeting, they would say: 'Oh, you're working on it right now?'

John Sayles

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The biggest road block to action on genocide and other human rights crimes is ignorance. Most people just don't know that such things are happening, and often, if they have a vague idea they are happening, there is a feeling that there is nothing that can be done to stop these crimes.

John Prendergast

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Humility is really important because it keeps you fresh and new.

Steven Tyler

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I much prefer writing fiction. History books, for me, are very hard work, very serious.

Simon Sebag Montefiore

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I think it was always okay to be a geek.

Robin Hobb

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I designed the miniskirt that caused so much havoc in the Sixties - the miniskirt that was such fun but has travelled well to today.

Mary Quant

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I love God, and I'm a follower.

Little Richard

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A patent, or invention, is any assemblage of technologies or ideas that you can put together that nobody put together that way before. That's how the patent office defines it. That's an invention.

Dean Kamen

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I enjoy doing everything, comedy and drama. I just look for the characters really and what they offer.

Chiwetel Ejiofor

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