Ross Douthat I didn’t really start writing about the church in earnest until the mid-2000s, so I wasn’t present for or a participant in a lot of the John Paul II-era debates about papal authority. – Ross Douthat Authority Quotes Church Quotes Debates Quotes Earnest Quotes Iiera Quotes John Quotes Lot Quotes Papal Quotes Participant Quotes Paul Quotes Start Quotes Writing Quotes I don’t think of ‘heretic’ as a pejorative term – necessarily. I get the sense people sort of imagine that in my personal religious life I must be an intense rigorist wearing a hair shirt under my clothes while scourging myself. And, really, I’m not a rigorist by temperament.
Alain de Botton Sometimes my biography is interpreted as the upbringing of a French aristocrat. It was very, very different. We were a family of mercantile, immigrant Jews. – Alain de Botton
Lee Child I like food, like any other guy, but it is not the main thing in my life. I can do without it. – Lee Child
Michael Avenatti The kind of work I do, there’s usually a lot of money on the line; there are jobs on the line. It’s not a world that lends itself to everyone being friendly all the time. We’re certainly not sitting around holding hands singing ‘Kumbaya.’ – Michael Avenatti
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