Rodney Stark Quotes

Most churches are run by preachers who went to seminaries, who decided to be preachers when they were 18, 19, 20 years old. These preachers never met a payroll. They don't know how the world works.

Rodney Stark

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WorldKnowRunNeverOldYears

Ya know what I do almost every day? I wash. Personal hygiene is part of the package with me.

Jim Carrey

DayMeEvery DayKnowPersonalWash

However near and dear to you may be your wife, children, friends, they are not you; they are outside of you.

John Buchanan Robinson

ChildrenWifeFriendsYouOutside

I'm not a Johnny-come-lately Jew. I've been around. I watch out for the Jews; I watch out for the Catholics.

John Catsimatidis

OutWatchBeenJewsAroundJew

I remember once in junior high school, on a Friday, my mom came home from work and said to my brother and I, 'You know, between us, we have only 27 cents, but we have food in the refrigerator, we have our little garden out back, and we're happy, so we are rich.'

John Paul DeJoria

WorkHomeFoodSchoolHappyBrother

I will say that walking down the street, getting on the subway, taking the elevator, if there's one or two people and they say, 'Great job, Mayor,' that is a real turn-on. I mean, anybody that wouldn't find that satisfying, rewarding, exciting, thrilling - I think they should see the doctor.

Michael Bloomberg

GreatJobPeopleDoctorThinkDown

I dream crazy vivid dreams. Like, entire movies. And sometimes I write songs about them.

Amy Lee

DreamsCrazyDreamSometimesMovies

Cows and other ruminants are worse polluters than all of the transportation in the world, so all of us who try to cut down our carbon footprint by lessening our transportation would do far better by just consuming less beef.

Stephen J. Dubner

WorldBetterTransportationDownTry

Merely implying bias due to a judge's ethnic heritage is wrong as a matter of principle and legally illegitimate.

Ron DeSantis

JudgeHeritageWrongBiasMatter

Nobody could emerge from a childhood at MGM unscathed.

Michael Korda

ChildhoodNobodyEmergeCouldMGM

I went to Cal Arts and AFI, and I worked on 'Bonfire Of The Vanities.' I got this grant from the Academy to be Brian De Palma's apprentice director. And it was such a harrowing, disillusioning, awful experience.

Douglas Rushkoff

ExperienceDirectorArtsGotBonfire

I had no idea when I moved to Nashville people just were songwriters. I had no idea. So I guess I was selling myself as a singer when I first moved here. But then right after I first moved, I started writing a lot.

Ashley Monroe

MyselfPeopleWritingSellingSinger

Not that it was Twiggy's fault, but the ubiquity of her image created a sense in young women that to be stylish meant to be skinny, flat-chested with an ingenue face and straight hair.

Susie Orbach

WomenHairFaceStylishMeant To Be

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