Elaine Pagels Quotes

People who study the way religions develop have shown that if you have a charismatic teacher, and you don't have an institution develop around that teacher within about a generation to transmit succession within the group, the movement just dies.

Elaine Pagels

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TeacherPeopleGenerationYouGroup

It was a very exciting time for me to play professional football, finally.

Jim Otto

TimeFootballMeProfessionalPlay

You have to come in and be that character when you walk into the room. That's what one of my first acting teachers taught me. You know, don't go in there being Jennifer and then expect to flip and change, because they're not going to have that imagination.

Jennifer Lopez

ChangeCharacterWalkImaginationMe

The big problem is that a lot of Americans, whether they are underrepresented minorities or from rural areas, do not know about career opportunities in the tech industry because they may not have had role models who are part of this field or learned about STEM in school.

Stacy Brown-Philpot

SchoolOpportunitiesProblemCareer

I didn't need to depend on the record company to publish my records.

Solomon Burke

NeedCompanyDependPublishRecords

Human beings are so made that the ones who do the crushing feel nothing; it is the person crushed who feels what is happening. Unless one has placed oneself on the side of the oppressed, to feel with them, one cannot understand.

Simone Weil

FeelPersonNothingUnderstandHuman

We, as Americans, have so much to learn here. We have a shockingly low level of global awareness and familiarity and little idea of how the world sees us. And those disturbing facts keep getting us into a lot of trouble.

Tom Freston

WorldFactsLearnTroubleAwareness

People don't understand what music really is. I've been a musician since I was 6 years old. I got my first piano, was playing recitals at 8, 10 I picked up a guitar, 12 I picked up my first Pearl Master drum set. I was an artist before I was an 'artist.'

Mitchel Musso

MusicPeopleGuitarArtistFirst

I could probably live in London if you had better surf.

Luke Hemsworth

LiveBetterYouLondonCouldHad

It's safe to say headphones is a good business.

DJ Khaled

GoodBusinessSaySafeHeadphones

My parents weren't at all in entertainment, but when I look back, something along the line prepared me and opened me up to entertainment.

Bonnie Hammer

ParentsMeLookBackEntertainment

Winners make a habit of manufacturing their own positive expectations in advance of the event.

Brian Tracy

PositiveHabitExpectationsWinners

Since puberty, I've always known there was a possibility of me being with a man. It wasn't anything I felt the need to explore until the time came to explore it.

Antoni Porowski

TimeManMeExploreNeedAnything

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