"If we know God is for us, then it shouldn't matter how we feel, or what other people think of us."
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"The Bible has the answers to our everyday life. Many times people don't realize how practical it is."
"I think the perception of peace is what distracts most people from really having it."
"I've been so mistreated by male authority in my life that I had a terrible time in my marriage trying to be a submissive wife. I wanted to rule the roost in everything. And it wasn't even really that I was rebellious; I was afraid of being hurt. And I think that a lot of people that choose these alternative lifestyles, I think it's because they've been hurt somewhere along the line very badly."
"I don't accept the argument of people like David Horowitz that the government should impose some sort of predetermined political balance on academic research."
"The truth is that you - people are doing scientific research with fetal tissue and it's not as if - no, this is brand-new news. This is something funded by."
"It's great to work with people that you like, any job, no matter what you do."
"I think something happens only when people find that they are moved with others, find themselves linked or allied in new ways, showing up or speaking out in ways that resonate with one another. That resonating can be very compelling and lead to moving and speaking more emphatically and with sharper focus."
"When a society abandons its ideals just because most people can't live up to them, behavior gets very ugly indeed."
"When people start hurling insults at you, you know their minds are closed and there's no point in debating. You disengage yourself as quickly as possible from the situation."
"A small wedding is not necessarily one to which very few people are invited. It is one to which the person you are addressing is not invited."
"Posterity! Why should people be less stupid tomorrow than they are today?"
"Literature is an occupation in which you have to keep proving your talent to people who have none"
"You're tough when you need to be, and you can charm the pants off men who have three times your experience. Well, yes. Although I try not to take advantage of that too often. Very awkward negotiating with people who are sitting around in their underwear."
"Fame can be just so annoying because people are so critical of you. You can't just say "hi". You say hi and people whisper "Man, did you see the way she said Hi. What an attitude.""
"So, poetry becomes a means for useful dialogue between people who are not only unknown, but mute to each other. It produces a dialogue among people that guards all of us against manipulation by our so-called leaders."
"I feel like every time you get to make a sequel, it's a privilege. It means that people have embraced it and want the journey to continue."
"There's also, I think more so in the music business and especially for women, this ceiling that people put on you if you have children or a family and decide to spend time with them."
"A competitive culture endures by tearing people down."
"It is always brave to insist on undergoing transformations that feel necessary and right even when there are so many obstructions to doing so, including people and institutions who seek to pathologize or criminalize such important acts of self-definition. I know that for some feels less brave than necessary, but we all have to defend those necessities that allow us to live and breathe in the way that feels right to us. Surgical intervention can be precisely what a trans person needs – it is also not always what a trans person needs."