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"There's this morbid side to the way many represent Christianity today, where you don't smile, because it's too serious, and you can't expect to see God - that kind of stuff. If there is God, we must see Him, and I don't believe in the idea you find in most churches, where they say, "No, you're not going to see Him. He's way up above you. Just believe what we tell you and shut up.""
"New ideas can be good and bad, just the same as old ones."
"The chief problem is, of course, whether the marching of the general spirit of things is heading consciously or sub- consciously toward an idea of extension of boundaries."
"Things like pornography perpetuates this idea that women are just there as objects of male desire and are not complex people with their own sexuality and humanity."
"I do value my work awfully; but in reality only consider this: all this world of ours is nothing but a speck of mildew, which has grown up on a tiny planet. And for us to suppose we can have something great - ideas, work - it's all dust and ashes."
"He who has a mistaken idea of life, will always have a mistaken idea of death."
"The ideas of the wise have been tested by centuries. Everything medium is lost and only original, deep and useful things are left."
"When you pray, you open yourself to the influence of the power which has revealed itself as love. The power gives you freedom and independence. Once touched by this power, you are no longer swayed back and forth by the countless opinions, ideas, and feelings which flow through you. You have found a center for your life that gives you a creative distance so that everything you see, hear, and feel can be tested against the source."
"People forget ideas; they don't forget the real presence."
"People who read your ideas tend to think that your writings reflect your life."
"Never have ideas about children, and never have ideas for them."
"At any given moment there is an orthodoxy, a body of ideas which it is assumed that all right-thinking people will accept without question."
"... what is peculiar to our own age is the abandonment of the idea that history could be told truthfully."
"I have idea files of books that I want to write one of these days, stories I want to write one of these days, but I'll probably never get to them."
"The idea of Christ is much older than Christianity."
"Libertarian presidential candidate André Marrou's idea is that "government power is opposed to individual liberty." Must we still debate such sophomoric notions?... Besides, liberty, although very important, is not the only value."
"One thing I've learned as an actor as well as a producer is to trust my own instinct. When I first started acting I would sometimes have ideas about certain things, whether it's a scene, or a character or certain dialogue, that wouldn't be followed. I was never in a position to have the power to press the matter. Sometimes it wasn't even about my character. But I'd watch the movie afterwards and think I was right."
"Liberty is the very last idea that seems to occur to anybody, in considering any political or social proposal. It is only necessary for anybody for any reason to allege any evidence of any evil in any human practice, for people instantly to suggest that the practice should be suppressed by the police."
"There are no new ideas about female education."
"The old idea that the joke was not good enough for the company has been superseded by the new aristocratic idea that the company was not worthy of the joke. They have introduced an almost insane individualism into that one form of intercourse which is specially and uproariously communal. They have made even levities into secrets. They have made laughter lonelier than tears."
