Kingsley Amis Quotes

One of the great benefits of organised religion is that you can be forgiven your sins, which must be a wonderful thing. I mean, I carry my sins around with me, there's nobody there to forgive them.

Kingsley Amis

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: english
  • Birth: April 22, 1922 - October 22, 1995

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With a proven track record as a reliable, low cost producer able to meet the needs of our customers with a diversity of operations, coal qualities and transportation options, we believe we can continue our record-setting performance in the future, as the Gibson South and White Oak mines reached their full potential.

Joe Craft

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I have to say that deporting people and calling them 'bad hombres,' then kicking families out with visa violations, upsets me.

Maz Jobrani

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We weren't allowed to have secular music in the house growing up. I was home-schooled, and gospel was the only choice we had.

John Legend

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I'm too much of a Libra. I too often see the other person's point of view and capitulate, even though I have strong political convictions. It's just my liability. Maybe I'm too empathetic. That's the actor in me.

John Lithgow

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There are different pastors that are good at different things, but one of the things I love is everything I do as a pastor is centered around helping people to understand what God has said in his word, so I don't have to come up with a bunch of new stuff to say.

Trip Lee

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What I have learned over the years is to try to stay in the moment.

Tracy Morgan

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There's something rare and wonderful that's very particular to television, and it's when a great cast meets a great show runner/creator with the right set of characters to play. That's what happened with 'Arrested Development.' It happens every so often, but all too rarely on TV.

Ron Howard

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I've always dreamed that George Lucas would call me one day and ask me to be in one of the 'Star Wars' films.

Ming-Na Wen

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Graham promoted a white evangelical respectability that wanted to 'put the brakes' on the civil rights movement, and never really accepted women as equal to men. He may have been the country's greatest evangelist, but he was also an apologist for the racist and sexist beliefs pervasive among white evangelical men in 20th-century America.

Anthea Butler

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The linkage between tax rates and public services is, if not non-existent, negative.

Arthur Laffer

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A good End cannot sanctify evil Means; nor must we ever do Evil, that Good may come of it.

William Penn

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Dad always said, 'Get a degree and do something on your own before you start movies.' He always kept me grounded, telling me the realities of the business and the struggles even the legends had to go through.

Suriya

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