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Popular culture tells you that schools and parents don't know what's going on, the police are dogs, politicians are all liars and scum, and any crime that's not committed by the Mafia is done by the CIA.


Stanley Crouch

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PAUL STANLEY Nothing could ever stop Kiss. I've seen the band in down times where critics were like vultures ...
PAUL STANLEY I hear people all the time say, well I read through the Bible last year. Well, so what? I'm all ...
CHARLES STANLEY I am a Protestant. I am a communicant at the Church of the Holy Family, an Episcopal church in Chape...
STANLEY HAUERWAS We have never heard of laundering in Macau; money laundering is unheard of. Mind you, my casino, eve...
STANLEY HO Since the day of the air, the old frontiers are gone. When you think of the defense of England you n...
STANLEY BALDWIN After all my years of doing instrumental music I still like just a simple instrumental song with a n...
STANLEY CLARKE I think KISS has always been about celebrating self-empowerment. Celebrating the idea that anything ...
PAUL STANLEY The church wasn't an organization in the first century. They weren't writing checks or buyin...
ANDY STANLEY Feast of Aidan, Bishop of Lindisfarne, Missionary, 651 Commemoration of Cuthburga, Founding Abbess ...
ARTHUR STANLEY To go from being an unpopular, chubby little kid who was chasing girls and couldn't seem to catc...
PAUL STANLEY If machines do everything well, including allocating capital and resources efficiently, can that be ...
STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER I started dancing when I saw Fred Astaire in 'Flying Down to Rio,' at approximately nine yea...
STANLEY DONEN What I got, unconsciously, from admiring Fred Astaire was that he didn't want what he was doing ...
STANLEY DONEN Autobiographies, for the most part, to me, are like writing a love letter to yourself.
PAUL STANLEY Motherhood is a great honor and privilege, yet it is also synonymous with servanthood. Every day wom...
CHARLES STANLEY Disappointment is inevitable. But to become discouraged, there's a choice I make. God would neve...
CHARLES STANLEY I've seen myself do stuff on stage that was pretty amazing. I think that would be true for any a...
PAUL STANLEY God's voice is still and quiet and easily buried under an avalanche of clamour.
CHARLES STANLEY All in all, I don't think robots and greater automation can bring about a utopian world as I ima...
STANLEY DRUCKENMILLER Think about the comfortable feeling you have as you open your front door. That's but a hint of w...
CHARLES STANLEY I think a lot of people, even Christians, are willing to be satisfied with gaining lots and lots of ...
CHARLES STANLEY All Scripture is equally inspired, but not all Scripture is equally applicable or relevant to every ...
ANDY STANLEY From the beginning, Christianity has struggled to sustain the creative tension between the personal ...
STANLEY HAUERWAS The screen is a magic medium. It has such power that it can retain interest as it conveys emotions a...
STANLEY KUBRICK God's arrows of affliction are sharp and painful so He can get our attention. He won't let H...
CHARLES STANLEY God will never direct us to be prideful, arrogant and unforgiving, immoral or slothful or full of fe...
CHARLES STANLEY It is often observed that the first casualty of war is truth, but how do you tell the truth without ...
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