We're so mixed up about religion in this culture. We say the Pledge of Allegiance, 'under God indivisible,' but there's no prayer in the schools. I would be so untethered without my personal faith. I wouldn't be able to go through a day - but that's my own experience.
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SENECA Begin at once to live, and count each separate day as a separate life. SENECA Luck is where opportunity meets preparation. SENECA Friendship always benefits; love sometimes injures. SENECA II grew up in Australia, but I'm not from there originally. Like, my dad's South American, s... NATHALIE KELLEY If my life depended on being a social-media person in terms of talking myself up, I probably would b... BABYFACE I don't think that faith, whatever you're being faithful about, really can be scientifically... JANE GOODALL You know, we're a tight family. I live right down the street from my folks. I talk to my mother ... EMILIO ESTEVEZ I don't really like politics, to be honest. But it's other people making decisions about my ... LAURA RICKETTS The thing that alarms me is that there are so many clergymen who say that the so-called 'new mor... BILLY GRAHAM Some people keep God in a Sunday morning box and say, 'Hey, I did my religious duty.' That... JOEL OSTEEN I don't know if it's responsible for kids of my age to be so aggressively pursuing monogamou... EZRA MILLER As a little girl growing up in Southside Jamaica Queens, if anyone would've told me I'd have... NICKI MINAJ I've been up in the Arctic Circle where they have hockey rinks that don't have any heating. ... JOHN RALSTON SAUL I told my kids when they were little, 'Look, kids, your mother and I are screwing you up somehow... PAT CONROY Teenagers are very dark, I think. That's all the goth and emo stuff. They're experiencing a ... MEG ROSOFF Before 'Grey's Anatomy,' I was doing musicals, plays, commercials, you name it. CHANDRA WILSON I'm aware of the decisions I make and the responsibility I have as a role model. I wouldn't ... NAOMI SCOTT It's so important just to be true to yourself and to own your own character and take responsibil... BECKY LYNCH As a kid, I'd eat at my mother's house, then go down the road to my girlfriend's and eat... 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QUEEN LATIFAH I really want to do a film in another language. My dad's from Germany, so it'd be really coo... KIRSTEN DUNST It's a classic album. If it ain't better than 'The Truth,' it's right there with... BEANIE SIGEL I wouldn't ever say if you're having tough times then there must be something wrong with you... JOEL OSTEEN In Australia, I grew up watching 'The Mickey Mouse Club,' my son grew up watching 'Sesam... JACKI WEAVER I would like to fly in space. Absolutely. That would be cool. I used to just do personally risky thi... ELON MUSK I have my own faith which I've developed. It's non-denominational. I don't even know if ... SAMUEL BARNETT They got rid of bottled water. We got thermoses that say 'Grey's Anatomy Season 4' with ... BROOKE SMITH I certainly didn't say while writing 'Gossip Girl,' 'Oh this is going to be big!'... CECILY VON ZIEGESAR I'm good at what I do, but I wouldn't be so bold and arrogant as to say something disrespect... LL COOL J That's my personal view I would say most in my caucus agree with that but there are some who don... STEPHEN HARPER My dad could be beyond brilliant but totally introverted. If we're talking about computers, he... ALESSANDRA TORRESANI Where would I be without Johann Strauss's beautiful 'Blue Danube?' Without this piece of... ANDRE RIEU I had no idea how difficult Sondheim's music would be. All through the rehearsals, I kept flubbi... MAKO I remember if the telephone rang after 9 o'clock in the house, my mother would say, 'Who'... LIZZIE ARMITSTEAD There's always going to be silly stuff out there in the media that you can't worry too much ... AARON RODGERS People go into a gallery, and they're afraid to express their opinions about art. No one's a... WILLIAM QUIGLEY I think it's really important that I'm not the only model in the world that goes through per... GIGI HADID I don't really have a career plan. There's no joy for me to just be a personality in my work... TAMMY BLANCHARD Over the years, I would go to my agents, my manager, and I would say, 'Hey, there's this ama... GRAHAM MOORE My family are massive fans of 'I'm A Celeb,' so that would be pretty cool. There's s... ADAM PEATY My father's from Australia and my mother was born in India, but she's actually Tibetan. I wa... DICHEN LACHMAN I think it's particularly a distinctively American concept that resonates with American culture ... RYAN HURST I feel like if I had my personality but was an OB/GYN, you would be psyched. You'd be like, '... MINDY KALING China may censor YouTube. China may censor Twitter. They won't be able to censor Bitcoin. There&... NAVAL RAVIKANT It's like real life: We don't get a preview of what's coming up, thank God, and we don... FRANCES CONROY I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some real... JENNIFER LOPEZ My mother is massively into sailing, so we always had Musto clothes, and it went on from there, real... ZARA PHILLIPS If I spent all my time criticising myself, I wouldn't be able to function. There are actors who ... ANTHONY HOPKINS In Arizona, we're at 7,000 feet, so we're above half of the world's atmosphere. It's... JAMES TURRELL In America, we have so many movies and so much media about the Islamic world, the sub-continental wo... MIRA NAIR If there's one thing I've learnt, it's that I don't think a man ever looks better th... TARON EGERTON Prayer is a privilege and the soul's sincere desire. We can move beyond routine and 'checkli... DAVID A. BEDNAR My background is not typical hip-hop. I didn't grow up in the projects. I grew up in a single fa... KID CUDI I wouldn't give up my career for somebody. The most important thing to me is my work, and reachi... ADELAIDE KANE Well, I've never left my faith - but have I made a lot of mistakes? But was I fortunate that I w... BILLY RAY CYRUS I don't differentiate between black and Latino actors. We're in the same struggle to be repr... LIN-MANUEL MIRANDA In my own relationships, I know that I should break up with someone who doesn't encourage me to ... VERONICA ROTH I think every woman, maybe every man, looks in the mirror and says, 'Oh my God, there's a wr... CHERYL TIEGS In many Asian households, to not go on to higher education, that's like a big no-no. I know my p... SANDRA OH I was a big fan of Raven Symone, when 'That's So Raven' was out. I used to say, 'Oh ... IMANI HAKIM That's a real secret. You can trust God. I feel I love the Lord with all of my heart, and he wil... TAMMY FAYE BAKKER I have great faith in God. Without faith, I don't know how I would have been able to get through... MARIE OSMOND I came, I studied architecture in America, so my technical background's completely western. But ... I. M. PEI I was so shy. I used to cross the street so I wouldn't even have to talk to my relatives, much l... GERALDINE BROOKS There's something about me that suggests I don't have an intelligent atom in me at all. 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VIRGINIA POSTREL The mere existence of 'Buffy' proves the declinists wrong about one thing: Hollywood commerc... VIRGINIA POSTREL It was a miserable machine, an inefficient machine, she thought, the human apparatus for painting or... VIRGINIA WOOLF The interest in life does not lie in what people do, nor even in their relations to each other, but ... VIRGINIA WOOLF So the days pass, and I ask myself whether one is not hypnotized, as a child by a silver globe, by l... VIRGINIA WOOLF For love... has two faces; one white, the other black; two bodies; one smooth, the other hairy. It h... VIRGINIA WOOLF Fiction is like a spider's web, attached ever so lightly perhaps, but still attached to life at all ... VIRGINIA WOOLF All I could do was to offer you an opinion upon one minor point VIRGINIA WOOLF Novels so often provide an anodyne and not an antidote, glide one into torpid slumbers instead of ro... VIRGINIA WOOLF Every secret of a writer's soul, every experience of his life, every quality of his mind is written ... VIRGINIA WOOLF I was in a queer mood, thinking myself very old: but now I am a woman again -- as I always am when I... VIRGINIA WOOLF We are nauseated by the sight of trivial personalities decomposing in the eternity of print. VIRGINIA WOOLF I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen by them, heard by the... VIRGINIA SATIR Against you I will fling myself, unvanquished and unyielding, O Death! VIRGINIA WOOLF It is no use trying to sum people up. One must follow hints, not exactly what is said, nor yet entir... VIRGINIA WOOLF The older one grows, the more one likes indecency. VIRGINIA WOOLF Now, aged 50, I'm just poised to shoot forth quite free straight and undeflected my bolts whatever t... VIRGINIA WOOLF At 46 one must be a miser; only have time for essentials. VIRGINIA WOOLF These are the soul's changes. I don't believe in aging. I believe in forever altering one's aspect t... VIRGINIA WOOLF It is in our idleness, in our dreams, that the submerged truth sometimes comes to the top. VIRGINIA WOOLF I hope Britney doesn't get bummed out that Lindsey is a better singer. It is not Lindsey saying ... VIRGINIA MADSEN If we help an educated man's daughter to go to Cambridge are we not forcing her to think not abo... VIRGINIA WOOLF Growing up is losing some illusions, in order to acquire others. VIRGINIA WOOLF As a general rule, durable-goods production tends to be the most volatile sector of the economy. Sin... VIRGINIA POSTREL My own brain is to me the most unaccountable of machinery - always buzzing, humming, soaring roaring... VIRGINIA WOOLF The biggest threat to a better life is the desire to keep the future under control - to make the wor... VIRGINIA POSTREL Kidney disease is a low-profile, unglamorous problem, a disease that disproportionately strikes mino... VIRGINIA POSTREL We can best help you to prevent war not by repeating your words and following your methods but by fi... VIRGINIA WOOLF I feel certain that I'm going mad again. I feel we can't go through another of those terrible times.... VIRGINIA WOOLF As a woman I have no country. As a woman my country is the whole world. VIRGINIA WOOLF What is amusing now had to be taken in desperate earnest once. VIRGINIA WOOLF It's not catastrophes, murders, deaths, diseases, that age and kill us; it's the way people look and... VIRGINIA WOOLF I always felt that I hadn't achieved what I wanted to achieve. I always felt I could get better. Tha... VIRGINIA WADE When Baby Boomer women started choosing hotel-like birthing centers over hospital delivery rooms, ho... VIRGINIA POSTREL