Secular 3 — Taylor’s notion of the secular as an age of contested belief, where religious belief is no longer axiomatic. It’s possible to imagine not believing in God. See also exclusive humanism.

Age of Authenticity

Age of Mobilization

Ancien regime

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

Secularism

Social imaginary

Spin

Subtraction stories

Take

Transformation perspective

Unthought

The kinds of things I like with crystals are the really beautiful costume jewelry, vintage pieces, and they usually have that diamond shape.

Well, in Japan, I have got a group of musicians that I have worked with a lot, that concentrate just on the hardcore stuff, say, that Naked City has been working on. We have like a repertoire of sixty songs now.

Controversial' as we all know, is often a euphemism for 'interesting and intelligent.

Everyone loves good looks, but personality is what sells for me. I want someone to have fun and go on adventures with. I do like guys with tattoos, though.

We are either going to go down the socialist road and become like Western Europe and create, I guess really a godless society, an atheist society. Or we're going to continue down the other pathway, where we believe in freedom of speech, individual liberties, and that we remain a Christian nation.

I was thrown out of different schools because I was practicing my arts - magic, juggling, and the high wire.

A breeze a forgotten summer a smile all can fit into a storefront window.

It is not a woman I want - it is all women.

You never came home for lunch: you just stayed doing, playing, having fun, surfing, running round.

For me, performing is the biggest part of being a rapper. There's nothing like the feeling of screaming your story to people.

The world is my lobster.

I don't know any guitar player, any of the real greats, who don't rate Joni Mitchell up there with the best of them.

The stage of the development of the productive forces determines the political and ideological superstructure of society which are crystallized into a system of social organization.

The epiphany was simply tucked away for consideration after we were back on campus. Sometimes a revelation comes with a flash of heavenly light and a booming voice and sometimes it is jotted in a sun bleached spiral notebook.

Look closer at the stress in your own life and you can identify that negative emotions are always built on counterfactual statements.

When I started, there weren't any arenas. There was football fields, but they would only hold three or four or five hundred people at the most... We played a lot of high school auditoriums and things like that - a lot of churches... but boy, it has changed.

Life is always a tightrope or a feather bed. Give me the tightrope.

Making jokes is about the most wrong and stupid thing a bemused, middle-aged, white heterosexual Anglo Saxon sort of Celt Australian male can do these days.

Energy is probably the most pressing demand on our planet.

Why did I become a writer? Because I grew up in New York City, and there were seven newspapers in New York City, and my family was an inveterate reader of newspapers and I loved holding a paper in my hand. It was something sacred.

Unlikely things are often true.