Quotes about "Faith & Spirituality"

It gives me a lot of confidence to play with my feet, and I have to be focused for 90 minutes. ”

I think teens trust each other's opinions about products because of the quality of authenticity that they think their friend's recommendation has. ”

Like Hipster Racism, Hipster Sexism is a distancing gesture, a belief that, simply by applying quotations, uncool, questionable, and even offensive material about women can be alchemically transformed. ”

Now celebrity has taken on a holy status all of its own, and we look to the stars to provide us with the transcendental experience that was once achieved through religion. ”

The religious imagery and fairytales that formed our shared cultural references have been replaced by the cult of celebrity. Marilyn is the sex goddess, Camilla Parker Bowles is cast as the wicked witch, Che Guevara is the revolutionary. Celebrities have become visual shorthand for narratives that shape our lives. ”

I have noticed a growth in demand from audiences to include more women of colour and women to be cast as significant roles in TV shows and movies. ”

All man's failures are either because of the religious denial of man's biological needs or the materialistic denial of man's spiritual desires. ”

There are only three integral views of the world: the religious, the materialistic, and the Islamic. They reflect three elemental possibilities (conscience, nature, and man), each of them manifesting itself as Christianity, materialism, and Islam. ”

Three trans women came up to me separately to tell me they had felt such a connection with Ava in 'Ex Machina' and her dream of finally coming to full female fruition. They had all cried; one said she was very emotional during the scene where Ava finally puts her skin on for the first time. ”

And I love kick boxing. It's a lot of fun. It gives you a lot of confidence when you can kick somebody in the head. ”