As Christians, we often tend to get our Bible doctrine confused and start mixing truths that were never meant to be mixed.
There's a flip side to having prominent public intellectuals, which is that they start meddling in politics and often with quite disastrous results.
The Republican agenda is a radical vision in which Medicaid is slashed to the bone - in which we start to balance the budget on the backs of, literally, our most vulnerable citizens.
The difference between a remarkable life and a mediocre one is not nearly as large as you might imagine. Nope, we all pretty much start out with the same raw stuff.
People say that when you get to a certain age that you start to mellow. I have no idea what these people are talking about.
I wanted control over the merchandising, the actual packaging of the product. That was a big factor. The only way for me to exercise control on all those levels was to start my own label.
People need to start to think about the messages that they send in the movies.
When you start messing with the Constitution and what this country was founded on - our baseline is what we call it - it just opens up too many doors.
When I start training, I get very serious and focused about it. I probably train 4-5 days a week, and I eat probably eat 5-8 small meals a day to keep my metabolism going.
Scientists have to have a metaphor. All scientists start with imagination.
My second year of college, I started performing comedy at an open mic. It was good to do open mics with the kids. It's a good, safe spot to start, you know?
If something becomes old-fashioned, it was no good to start with. Think about it. Michelangelo is not old-fashioned.
Several years ago, when I was about to start a novel, I thought I might get some mileage out of the idea of a civilization in which people somehow felt - that is, they shared - all the pain and all the pleasure they caused one another.
The military don't start wars. Politicians start wars.
I'm just very wary that once you start military operations in any country, it's very difficult to predict what the outcome is.
Here's the thing... when people start making music, they start borrowing styles from other people, because that's what you do. You start by recreating hip-hop beats you've heard from other people, or you start mimicking other people, or you're just listening to stuff.
I'm pretty much done with mindfulness. I'm just going to start paying attention.
I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.
It's understood in Minnesota that we're going to start losing businesses if we can't find more workers.
I love to start the morning with a mist spray, especially after a night out.
