"I see those picketers, and I think you know, if I weren't a loving, non-violent, spiritual person, I would really go over there and grab those signs and smash them over their heads and shove them up their asses. But...I'm a loving, spiritual person."
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Related I have kept a diary, WITHNAIL AND I True love is not loving a person despite their weaknesses, but rather loving them because you can su... JIM GENOVESE I like to open for a band as it brings on sort of a challenge and it makes things more interesting. ... KELLY JONES I'm a deeply spiritual person, and I strongly believe that God is watching over me! MAHESH BHUPATHI I would really enjoy getting to go to some of their games. I think it would be awesome to see them i... BEN KING Loving someone but not trusting them is a spiritual emergency. S. KELLEY HARRELL Actions reveal… If you have to TELL me you’re honest, caring, generous, spiritual, kind, loving,... STEVE MARABOLI If you stay on your looks, you may end up loving or dumping a perfectly fantastic person without eve... OSCAR AULIQ-ICE If you stay on your looks, you may end up loving or dumping a perfectly fantastic person without eve... AULIQ ICE I think I'm a spiritual person. I don't really go to church often when services are on, but ... JOANNA LUMLEY I hope I'm a spiritual person. I'm trying to be a spiritual person. JAKE GYLLENHAAL I was a big Jay Leno fan, so I was sorry to see him go. But my number one person that I watch, she... MEGYN KELLY I just think it's super amazing that the U.K. fans are so dedicated and loving. I love them, and... AUSTIN MAHONE I take time with each person and try to remember them, especially if they're a repeater from ano... SHERRILYN KENYON A lot of guys are very intimidated by an attractive woman, and they dehumanise her because our cultu... NEIL STRAUSS I don't mind having a reputation as a serious and spiritual person. I think that would be a nice... RUSSELL BRAND I think Ellen DeGeneres is just hysterical. PAUL RUDD I was always a happy and loving person. Many would say that I was living an idyllic life. SUSAN POLIS SCHUTZ I haven't gone around and taken a poll -- and I won't -- but I would bet if you went out and asked a... MIKE HARGROVE I am usually a fun-loving person, and I say most of the things in a jest. Sometimes I get in trouble... RANVEER SINGH Living is lovely ...
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Loving is Lively # [EMAIL PROTECTED] [You don't even know what you would call this grammatical two-step. (Fourth person? First person onc... JOE TORRE I may not be the richest man in the world with money to dispose of at the same time my 3 sons will a... JEFFREY LEE GIBSON JR. Odd, she thought, how intensely you knew a person, or thought you did, when you were in love - soake... ANITA SHREVE It should begin with friendship, I think. Suddenly I cannot look at him. It should begin with f... LISA ANN SANDELL I don't think of myself as a spiritual person. MICHAEL POLLAN Unconditional love takes a strong and deliberate evolution. Unconditional love is way beyond emotion... CATHY BURNHAM MARTIN I have this weird sort of Gemini thing where I can really be empathetic and a loving person. But if ... BILL BURR James Cagney, Steve McQueen, I loved all those guys. I grew up loving the movies but had no desire t... MARK WAHLBERG We'll go see some theater, and we'll hang out and do some stuff there. We'll go to clubs, ... Ellen ... ELLEN DEGENERES The mirror had broken into millions of pieces and the wind blew them all over the world. If a person... ISOBELLE CARMODY I don’t know a perfect person. I only know flawed people who are still worth loving. JOHN GREEN I'm a very driven, ambitious, positive person. But I'm a spiritual person as well. VICTORIA BECKHAM I tell people all the time - I'm a very spiritual person, so I pray over everything that I do in... ANDRA DAY You're so brutal to those who love you, Scarlett. You take their love and hold it over their heads l... MARGARET MITCHELL It's about loving and letting go. I think it's about family and those relationships that are incredi... TONI COLLETTE I'm a very spiritual person, and proud of my Mormon roots. JON HUNTSMAN, JR. Many people define who they are, based upon what the world sees when it looks at them. They build th... C. JOYBELL C. I think everybody can relate to loving somebody and them bringing out a wild side in you. CAMILA CABELLO I wanted to teach our kids that when somebody makes a mistake, you don't just throw them in the garb... JOANNE PRATT I am a very spiritual person and love travelling to religious places. I go to the Golden Temple, Tir... MADHUR BHANDARKAR I’ve never gotten a love letter before. But reading these notes like this, one after the other, it... JENNY HAN And who is to say that loving a person isn’t just loving the idea of that person and not the actua... CATHERINE LACEY I define a 'good person' as somebody who is fully conscious of their own limitations. They k... JOHN BRADSHAW Just like anyone's pet, you can't walk up and grab them. They know their owner, but you're a strange... GEORGE STROBL I'm not a religious person; I'm not even, like, a spiritual person. TIG NOTARO I don't see how you can discriminate against them and make them play in their own division. I don't ... CHUCK ELKINS It's still in their heads. If we can just get over the hump and beat one of those teams who have bea... KATHY GRANING The God
In you is bigger
Than the devil that's been troubling you BOBONTLE MOPELOA If you love yourself, you love everybody else as you do yourself. As long as you love another person... MEISTER ECKHART Everybody always laughs about it, but nobody really ever does (complain). And I think for the kids i... KATIE STRINGHAM When you go against the flow of nature and betray the spiritual laws existing within, there is, and ... SUZY KASSEM When I see these guys write all this macho stuff I want to smash their heads. JOHN TURTURRO I think you need to go through some stuff to really appreciate life and understand what it means to ... JUDITH HILL You know, I think I am faintly spiritual. DAMIAN LEWIS Just by loving the good things about a person doesnt mean you truly love them it means your pretendi... SEGEV LAYANI You can't really get to know a person until you get in their shoes and walk around in them. HARPER LEE Maybe I will always have to love the idea of love or a concept of God more than I can love a person.... CATHERINE LACEY I think last week made them hungry and made them realize they can qualify. I think they've got their... JACK WARNER It takes a really long time to realize this, but if you’re lucky you eventually see that you’ve ... C. JOYBELL C. I love all animals. I just happen to prefer cats. They're really chill, and they're loving y... CAMREN BICONDOVA I loved this woman. You can't just turn off that kind of feeling. But I loved a person who didn't ex... JAMES PATTERSON There’s nothing worse than falling in love with a person over and over every time you lay eyes on ... TIFFANIE DEBARTOLO Most people believe that sharing the same flesh and blood, the same basic DNA structure, makes them ... ROBIN SACREDFIRE I didn't know exactly the whole story but after hearing it, it just made you really think about life... LEW FORD Geographically, they're often separated from their friends, they don't hang out with kids in the nei... CATHERINE BUTLER But, I believe," I continue, "I know what true love is - or what it should be." "What sh... LISA ANN SANDELL There's a pleasure to loving someone even when you know there's no chance in them loving you back. T... GABRIELLE ZEVIN And I thought about how many people have loved those songs. And how many people got through a lot of... STEPHEN CHBOSKY I looked down, my heart started beating really fast and I didn't know what to do next. I didn't know... JOE BARNARD I'm a spiritual person. I'm not very religious. I was raised Catholic, but I am influenced a... RODRIGO SANTORO Be careful with those promises who whisper while wooing and loving someone. There are those that tak... ALFA H I never understood who all those people are behind the actors! When you see them on the red carpet o... LUPITA NYONG'O Three months ago, if you asked me, I would have told you that if you really loved someone, you’d l... JODI PICOULT It's a great recognition and a tribute to their hard work. I think if you would ask them they would ... CAROLYN PECK I never want to confuse people or go over their heads. WIZ KHALIFA I had grown up loving movies and had always wanted to write them. BRUCE FEIRSTEIN I felt 'Gone with the Wind' would last five years, and it's lasted over 70 and into a ne... OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND For me to be in a room with those soldiers standing over there -- it's almost like you're there with... ANNIE LEIBOVITZ And I had to tell every one of them two things. One, I thanked them for their sacrifice, but also re... LAURA BUSH I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I wat... STEPHEN CHBOSKY You know those sexy pinup posters people put up in their bedrooms? I always saw them as being kind o... JOHN HUGHES Loving is doing anything for them, thinking about them constantly and being able to spend your whole... CHRIS BROWN I feel that in-person contact with people is the most important thing in comedy. While I'm up on sta... BILL COSBY I love the '50s and grew up loving works from that time period and from those great playwrights. SEBASTIAN STAN I know that people everywhere listen to hip-hop, but especially being from the South, you really get... KAT DAHLIA Books, I don't know what you see in them . . . I can understand a person reading them, but I can't f... PETER USTINOV Historically, I think you can really judge a person by their shoes. EDGARDO OSORIO I robbed them, and I killed them as cold as ice, and I would do it again, and I know I would kill an... AILEEN WUORNOS I say to people who care for people who are dying, if you really love that person and want to help t... ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS I consider myself a good person. And I think people perceive me to be, 'Oh, she's nice,'... MIRANDA KERR when i meet someone new they tell me that im crazy or that i need personal and that im the weirdest ... DALLY SALAD If you want to know how a manager is performing ask to see their data, really want to know... ask th... MARK W. BOYER No child on earth was ever meant to be ordinary, and you can see it in them, and they know it, too, ... ANNIE DILLARD I must be myself, I said over and over. I must forget these people buzzing inside my head, I must fo... ORHAN PAMUK I was doing stand-up at a restaurant and there was a chalkboard on the street out front. It said, So... ELLEN DEGENERES
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It said, ''... ELLEN DEGENERES I feel sorry for the newscasters you know? We can turn it off. But that's their job and they have to... ELLEN DEGENERES "I'm feeling so good. I feel like a million bucks. I'm focused, I'm alert, I'm zippy and top of my g... ELLEN DEGENERES Come on, if you don't win tonight it doesn't mean you're not a good person, it just means you're not... ELLEN DEGENERES You know me. Any excuse to put on a dress. ELLEN DEGENERES "I feel like I have a hangover, without all the happy memories and mystery bruises." ELLEN DEGENERES I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave it, ... ELLEN DEGENERES Normal is getting dressed in clothes that you buy for work and driving through traffic in a car that... ELLEN DEGENERES Hello?..Oh, hi Tom. Ooh, I've been dying to see that movie...Mmm no, I just opened up some yogurt. I... ELLEN DEGENERES It's definitely a heterosexual feeling, but it's directed at you. ELLEN DEGENERES Yeah [I'm thirty-six], but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year old w... ELLEN DEGENERES I was raised around heterosexuals, as all heterosexuals are, that's where us gay people come from...... ELLEN DEGENERES Trying to get the talk show, looking back on it, we had to beg a lot of station managers to pick up ... ELLEN DEGENERES The first house I bought was a little Spanish bungalow on Clinton Street in West Hollywood, right be... ELLEN DEGENERES I'm on the patch right now. Where it releases small dosages of approval until I no longer crave ... ELLEN DEGENERES It's not like I grew up playing pranks on people, and I was not that girl in school. ELLEN DEGENERES I just like observing people - it's something I've done ever since I was a kid, and I got re... ELLEN DEGENERES Yeah I'm thirty-six, but on the show I'm thirty-two. Nobody wants to watch a thirty-six year... ELLEN DEGENERES Anne wrote it for me and directed, so I was stuck with it, ... We always got along. It's almost gros... ELLEN DEGENERES New Orleans is my hometown, and our thoughts and prayers go out to everyone affected. ELLEN DEGENERES I've been trying to find women writers for my staff for a while now and I have three women on my... ELLEN DEGENERES In the beginning there was nothing. God said, ‘Let there be light!’ And there was light. There w... ELLEN DEGENERES I get bored easily, so I need to do a lot. I've started a record label, so I get to nurture new ... ELLEN DEGENERES I enjoy growing older and wiser and learning from my mistakes every single day. ELLEN DEGENERES I've moved about 10 times over the past 15 years. I don't move for the sole purpose of getti... ELLEN DEGENERES The first time probably people really were aware of me, I unfortunately had the title of Showtime... ELLEN DEGENERES Stuffed deer heads on walls are bad enough, but it’s worse when you see them wearing dark glasses,... ELLEN DEGENERES Procrastination is not the problem. It is the solution. It is the universe's way of saying stop, slo... ELLEN DEGENERES Life is short. If you doubt me, ask a butterfly. Their average life span is a mere five to fourteen ... ELLEN DEGENERES Our attention span is shot. We've all got Attention Deficit Disorder or ADD or OCD or one of these d... ELLEN DEGENERES You have to stay in shape. My grandmother, she started walking five miles a day when she was 60. She... ELLEN DEGENERES I would love to have the same rights as everybody else. I would love, I don't care if it's c... ELLEN DEGENERES I'm grateful for everything. I'm grateful for my health, and I'm so grateful for the lov... ELLEN DEGENERES I say always follow your passion, no matter what, because even if it's not the same financial su... ELLEN DEGENERES There would be nothing to get me to run for president. I don't even understand how anyone would ... ELLEN DEGENERES