"What if the church should be less concerned with creating saints than creating a world where we do not need saints? A world where people like Mother Teresa and MLK would have nothing to do."

-- Peter Rollins

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“Something that I wanted to do through the film is try to explore the roots of belief, because everything has to do with beliefs. When I studied the side of the rationalists and the skeptics, and the side of the believers and so-called psychics, I found out that both of them, no matter what they claim to do, behave in a very similar way. They only accepted what confirmed their previous positions, and tended to reject everything that put them at risk.”
“I will be voting to give the President of the United States the authority to use force-- if necessary-- to disarm Saddam Hussein because I believe that a deadly arsenal of weapons of mass destruction in his hands is a real and grave threat to our security.”
“Show me what you can do; don't tell me what you can do.”
“The truth is, a man can choose to objectify a woman whether sheâ€™s wearing a bikini or a burqa. We donâ€™t stop lust by covering up the female form; we stop lust by teaching men to treat women as human beings worthy of respect.”
“Sometimes shutting off the sound on the television can allow you to actually watch the game and take it in in an entirely different and more direct way - a first-order, first-person experience - rather than filtered through the mind of another.”
“I also try very hard to create characters - both heroes and villains - with psychological depth.”
“Making art for me is not fun in the sense of la, la, la, la, but it's something that I find very absorbing and very satisfying.”
“Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.”

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