We can't be guided - because we're so far from it. We've so destroyed it. We're so far from that that we can't use it. I mean, Jim Bakker heard from God. What a good job he did!
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Related He blesses us so we can be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL We may claim to believe in God, but we don't want to believe so much that it makes us different. CRAIG GROESCHEL So many people witness atrocities and can't take their eyes away from them, but that doesn't... ADAM LEVINE There is nothing we can't do. So it's just the fact that we're doing topics like that th... TREY PARKER I can tell you that you will have your hearts broken more by the people you love than by the people ... MARGARET PETERSON HADDIX If we don't fear God, it's because we don't know God. CRAIG GROESCHEL We're so trendy we can't even escape ourselves. KURT COBAIN Moderate doesn't mean that you're a wimp - far from it. It means that you've chosen a pa... NAJIB RAZAK Because of the fact that we've been through so much, we're going to appreciate every step of... BILL RANCIC We're going to Puerto Rico, where we're gonna close. And we're so excited, we can't ... CHITA RIVERA Jim Bakker came along. He said, Jessica Hahn, listen. You're a virgin. As God as my witness. He ... JESSICA HAHN We've sold over 100,000 records so far, and we're an independent label. ISAAC HANSON I've always felt compelled to explore range, because, as far as I know, we're only here once... TWYLA THARP Disasters are usually a good time to re-examine what we've done so far, what mistakes we've ... DAN ARIELY So we're living by that sword, and we're going to cut every now and then from it's backl... VINCE MCMAHON I've been doing a little project with my 11-year-old son, Charlie: we're canoeing from the s... DOUGLAS HODGE We are far from perfect but willing to be different. CRAIG GROESCHEL Because the Internet is so new, we still don't really understand what it is. We mistake it for a... DOUGLAS ADAMS If ever there was a holiday that deserves to be commercialized, it's Halloween. We haven't t... 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Everyone's mindset is made to f... SONNY BILL WILLIAMS There are people that really live by doing the right thing, but I don't know what that is, I'... LOUIS C. K. So you don't speak English, you have no ID, you can't tell where you're from... that'... JOE ARPAIO The diversity of America is a strength of the country, and I don't think that we use that. We do... STEVE STOUTE We're all idiots when we're young. We don't think we are, but we are. So we should be. HELEN MIRREN If we're not a good steward of what God gives us, he takes it away. I think that's what happ... SHAWN MICHAELS If explicit metadata is a real problem, it raises problems that just can't be solved. It's n... DAVID WEINBERGER The words you can’t find, you borrow. We read to know we’re not alone. We read because w... GABRIELLE ZEVIN We're plugged in 24 hours a day now. We're all part of one big machine, whether we are consc... ALAN LIGHTMAN In Arizona, we're at 7,000 feet, so we're above half of the world's atmosphere. It's... JAMES TURRELL We're no longer a small business; we're a large organization spread around the world. I can&... JIM BARKSDALE I think it's so funny when people think they can't control a movie star. They can. We're... ESTHER WILLIAMS It's interesting how we often can't see the ways in which we are being strong - like, you ca... LENA DUNHAM Personally, I don't think we could do such a show if we didn't get along. The subtext of all... KRISTIN DAVIS It's horrible to think that a small cadre of people would manipulate that information. I mean, f... DWIGHT SCHULTZ Being from Boston, I think we have to get the 'Good Will Hunting' poster tattooed on our bac... JOHN KRASINSKI Normally, we're never satisfied. CRAIG GROESCHEL We're living in primate heaven. We're warm, dry, we're not hungry, we don't have fle... STEVEN PINKER When people talk about conservative government, that's it in a nutshell. We're using taxpaye... BILL HASLAM Just because we can't find a solution it doesn't mean that there isn't one. ANDREW WILES Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ... RAY BRADBURY The whole art of flirting has simply disappeared. This probably will do further damage. If we're... LETITIA BALDRIGE What you don't do, if you're an adult, is decide that you're going to budget things thro... LEWIS BLACK I don't think we should discriminate against an organization or congregation because they're... JIM WALLIS We don't know where our first impressions come from or precisely what they mean, so we don't... MALCOLM GLADWELL We, as Americans, at least - I mean, I love my country - but we're so self-righteous sometimes, ... PETER DINKLAGE There is an anti-science by the far right. We have to be careful that the far left doesn't balan... PETER AGRE I do think we've become so reliant that the phones are never out of our reach. We're always ... 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SUSAN LIEBERMAN I was the daughter of an immigrant, raised to feel that I needed to get excellent, flawless grades a... SUSAN CHOI Human relationships used to be easy: you had friends, boy- or girlfriends, parents, children, and la... SUSAN ORLEAN The best thing I could say is you do have to be a really good listener. If I go to a family reunion,... SUSAN STRAIGHT When you think of Yahoo, they had a shot to be what Vox is doing, in terms of taking content and dis... SUSAN DECKER My father, born in Colorado, met my mother, born in Switzerland, when he went into the finance compa... SUSAN STRAIGHT My hobby is gardening, I love it, it's my main hobby. I like being at home and I'm very happ... SUSAN HAMPSHIRE If you cut down a forest, it doesn't matter how many sawmills you have if there are no more tree... SUSAN GEORGE The love of the famous, like all strong passions, is quite abstract. Its intensity can be measured m... SUSAN SONTAG When you start to develop your powers of empathy and imagination, the whole world opens up to you. SUSAN SARANDON In all my novels, a sense of place - not just geographic but social - is a critical element. I have ... SUSAN WIGGS To paraphrase several sages: Nobody can think and hit someone at the same time. SUSAN SONTAG I always try to avoid looking at the section where my books would be shelved, but I do know that my ... SUSAN CHOI It become totally untenable to me that after acting for 25 years - I've played Juliet, Cleopatra... SUSAN STRASBERG My women students openly admit that they dress for interviews like dates, hoping to look their best:... SUSAN ESTRICH I want a chainsaw very badly, because I think cutting down a tree would be unbelievably satisfying. ... SUSAN ORLEAN I first travelled to Africa at the end of 1996 and was immediately captivated. I had planned on a th... SUSAN MINOT I think we actually punish children out of their relationship with their bodies... we categorically ... SUSAN GRIFFIN Divorced men are more likely to meet their car payments than their child support obligations. SUSAN FALUDI As our cities have developed, they've built sometimes small villages or communities that were in... SUSAN OLIVER I look forward to being older, when what you look like becomes less and less an issue and what you <... SUSAN SARANDON The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wis... SUSAN SONTAG In another life I would be a medievalist. I loved Chaucer, far more than Shakespeare. SUSAN HILL