"I will always speak out when someone says that a principle or a rule or a tradition trumps people."

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Source : "Bishop Gene Robinson Extended Interview". Interview with Kim Lawton, www.pbs.org. April 22, 2008.

Gene Robinson

#People Quotes #Principles Quotes #Speak Quotes

“Getting the first draft finished is like pushing a peanut with your nose across a very dirty floor.”
“Logic taken to an extreme would always equal chaos ...”

Source : Kate Green (1993). “Shooting Star”, Harpercollins
“You, me, & your papa are 3 of the tiny percentage of souls on this miserable earth who've figured out that playing ball is the highest purpose God ever invented the human male body for.”
“I cry at random things, like a flower, or someone giving me a present, or my sister giving me a nice hug.”
“That's why I think some people kind of fall off and they end up going crazy because you don't give yourself time to go crazy. That's what you're supposed to do; you are 20, you are supposed to be a mess because you haven't figured it out yet, and 10 years from now I am supposed to have it all together.”
“What I try to do is to make your face look like it did when you were younger. I always tell people it's not just about filling in the lines, but re-creating the shape of your face as it was in your early- or mid-twenties. People see the lines as they age but they don't see how their shape is changing. I think it's all about restoring the contours. You can fill in a line and it makes you look a little better, but it doesn't make you look younger.”

Source : Source: www.interviewmagazine.com
“If you paint in your mind a picture of bright and happy expectations, you put yourself into a condition conducive to your goal.”
“Every human being is a work of art.”

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