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Elaine Pagels Quotes

I am enormously susceptible to religious environments - the music, the liturgy and the prayers.

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: historian
Nationality: american
Birth: February 13, 1943

Topics

Music I Am Prayers Religious Am

We love to commiserate and troubleshoot and prepare for the worst, and gratitude yanks us out of that and reminds us of the ridiculous amount of infinite blessings that are around us at all times.

Love Gratitude Blessings Ridiculous

Ignorant people are apt to overrate the value of what is called education. The sons of the poor, having suffered the privations of poverty, think of wealth as the mother of joy.

Robert Green Ingersoll

Education Mother Value Joy People

I was first to break the news about the death of Lady Diana. The CNN team couldn't get into makeup fast enough.

Death Team Makeup Enough Lady Fast

To accustom the infant to get out of its own difficulties or to calm it by rocking it may be to lay the foundations of a good or of a bad disposition.

Good Calm Bad Difficulties Out Own

Our job is quite strange in that we hire a coach, and therefore, we're the boss. But coaches tell us what to do, and I think some coaches might struggle with the idea of a girl being the boss and telling them, 'I don't want to see you now. I want to have some time to myself.'

Girl Time Myself Struggle Job Boss

I'm going to take this God-given gift of being funny, and I'm going to spread it out like peanut butter on everything I do.

Funny Gift Everything Being Funny

I don't have much of an attention span for TV - I nod off during the basketball playoffs - but when I watch 'Game of Thrones' on On Demand, I'm glued to the set. It's mystical and addictive. Tyrion Lannister, that's my man.

Man Basketball Game Attention Watch

The more dynamic the capitalistic expansion, the greater the disparity. It is from the disparity that we are going to get all the political upheaval for the next few years.

Robert D. Kaplan

Political More Next Years Going Get

I never felt terribly comfortable in the public eye.

Eye Comfortable Never Felt Public

Acting is a very limited form of expression and those who take it seriously are very limited people. I take it seriously.

People Acting Seriously Expression

I've certainly never liked the idea of being put in a box. I loved being part of shows like 'American Idiot' and 'In the Heights,' and I take pride in being able to sing different styles, not just 'Old Man River.'

Man River Pride Loved American Box

It's taken a lot of presidents to get us where we are today, a lot of deployments, a lot of wars, a lot engagements. You add them all up.

Jon Huntsman, Jr.

Today You Up Where Us Get

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