"I'm not religious. I love what Clive James said the other day. James is a brilliant writer, but he keeps on writing poems on stuff. And he said, "God doesn't have a leg to stand on.""

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Tom Courtenay

#Religious Quotes #Writing Quotes #Legs Quotes

“From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face of complacency and cowardice. It is what enables the soldier to die alone, the political prisoner to resist, the singer to sing her song, hardly appreciated, on a side street.”
“We need to drive down requirements for the schools. In the 19th century, we increased the quality of the schools by higher education saying, 'You can't come in unless you have these skills, unless you've taken these courses.' We did that in Wisconsin when I was there, it helped to transform the secondary school system.”

Source : "Meet the Press" with David Gregory, www.nbcnews.com. September 25, 2011.
“If you can't do great things, Mother Teresa used to say, do little things with great love. If you can't do them with great love, do them with a little love. If you can't do them with a little love, do them anyway. Love grows when people serve.”
“Acts have their being in the witness. Without him who can speak of it? In the end one could even say that the act is nothing, the witness all.”
“My private life became public.”
“I think there's a difference between God and religion.”
“I'd rather be respected than loved.”
“Time is the measure of that which changes ...”

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