Ancien regime — One of Taylor’s “types” of religious identity, the ancient and medieval ordering tied religious identity to political identity: the king is divinely appointed.

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Buffered self

Closed world structures

Cross-pressure

Excarnation

Exclusive humanism

Expressive individualism

Fragilization

Fullness

Immanent frame

Immanentization

Maximal demand

Modern moral order

Nova effect

Porous self

Reform

Secular 1

Secular 2

Secular 3

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Subtraction stories

Take

Transformation perspective

Unthought

People either know Alan Rudolph and love every single one of his films or they don't know him at all.

When a medium like games or comic books whips up such a rapture of enthusiasm, naturally we look for lessons we should be learning.

It's tough sometimes for groups of people and animals to let go of that fear that can so easily bubble back up to the surface.

Film line is all about chance. I don't think much, I just like to take chances.

I think the more mediocre you are the better you do because people need to think you're their friend, they don't want to be threatened by you, you've got to be warm, you've got to be not too smart, not too pretty, not too anything.

If you like foie gras, that doesn't mean you no longer need a regular steak.

I've been in the game long enough to know what elements you have to package together to get a movie into production.

I played with Sam Lay, Jimmy Reed, Big Walter Horton, Big Moose Walker, and all those guys.

I've made 30 movies and for the most part my movies work. In a business where success is an exception and not the rule, I've mostly been successful.

But since I am in the music industry, I don't want anyone to download music, not on September 9th.

The course that I have uniformly pursued, ever since I became a missionary, has been rather peculiar. In order to become an acceptable and eloquent preacher in a foreign language, I deliberately abjured my own. When I crossed the river, I burnt my ships.

Never try to impress a woman, because if you do, she'll expect you to keep up the standard for the rest of your life.

If you would convince a man that he does wrong, do right. Men will believe what they see.

It's easy to be critical of ourselves and other women around us. We stand in front of the mirror and only focus on the things we hate about our body and our appearance. But I encourage you to change that attitude the next time you are in front of the mirror.

You know, it shouldn't just be about women as heroic figures overcoming things, it just needs to be about women in general getting the opportunity to play a multitude of roles, telling a multitude of stories - just to express human experience from a woman's perspective. I hope, someday, we can get to that point. I'm all about representation.

Every time I think of Doug Wilson, I think 'pathetic.' When it comes between something for himself or something for righteousness, he'll choose himself.

The apartheid system renounces no violence.

We seem, as it were, to have conquered and peopled half the world in a fit of absence of mind.

When we are away from home, our only constant companion is our self.

People blame their environment. There is only one person to blame and only one themselves.

When asked if my cup is half full or half empty my only response is that I am thankful I have a cup.