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I often think that the last holiday is the greatest, but then some really stand out in my mind. One of the best was one my wife and I had in the Lake District. We stayed in a B&B and walked around the countryside for two weeks.Collection: Jay
Ridding the world of poverty is, of course, a fantasy.Collection: Jay
The ability to sympathize with those around us seems crucial to our survival, and it's connected to the mirroring functions of the brain.Collection: Jay
Sarah Palin is a figure of fun on the American left, easily lampooned as a know-nothing, gun-toting ex-beauty queen who loves God and the red, white and blue above pretty much anything else except for Todd, her macho husband, who races snowmobiles across the Alaskan tundra.Collection: Jay
To bolster his right flank and attract women voters, John McCain had cynically opted for a running mate who was, by any stretch of the imagination, unqualified for a position a heartbeat away from the presidency.Collection: Jay
'Bag of Bones' was a big, distorted yet wonderfully entertaining novel that rode high on the bestseller lists in 1998.Collection: Jay
History is, of course, a made thing. It does not exist by itself in anything like a recognizable form.Collection: Jay
Indeed, we might all forget where we have been if we didn't have somebody to assemble and arrange the little blocks called facts from which history is constructed, artfully or less so.Collection: Jay
Language kills, and inflamed rhetoric of the kind that spews almost daily from the lips of Donald Trump, Ben Carson, Mike Huckabee, and others running for public office in this country should be condemned.Collection: Jay
It's time that Americans dealt seriously with guns, getting in place strong and appropriate measures - there is no excuse for anything but the strictest controls.Collection: Jay
A long-running argument exists over whether Christians and Muslims worship the same God. In my view, they certainly do.Collection: Jay
The ancient Greeks and Romans were comfortable with any number of deities and were quite open to allowing conquered nations to continue to worship in whatever ways they saw fit, as long as they didn't mind having an emperor who required taxes and tributes.Collection: Jay
God is God, but he has various names in different languages, and each strand of monotheistic religion has multiple ways of describing the godhead.Collection: Jay
Fundamentalism takes different forms in different religions, but there is one striking similarity in all forms of fundamentalist thought. Each wishes dearly to hold in check all varieties of 'modern' or 'decadent' thinking.Collection: Jay
Within the Christian tradition, fundamentalism arose in the 19th century as an effort to push back against modern' readings of the Bible that suggested everything in the text wasn't true in some literal sense.Collection: Jay
Beginning in the late 18th century, some German scholars began to regard Holy Scripture not as a single revelation but a sequence of inspired texts that occurred in specific times and places and were subject to varied and multiple meanings.Collection: Jay
American fundamentalist thought connected strongly to reactionary political ideology as nervous Christians pushed back against liberal reforms on many fronts.Collection: Jay
I regard Jesus, like the Buddha, as a figure with the power to shape our lives.Collection: Jay
I argue that the resurrection was not the Great Resuscitation. It was a total transformation. I just don't accept the black-and-white thinking that goes along with needing to regard the gospels are literally true.Collection: Jay
The gospels were, in fact, written anywhere from forty to a hundred years after Jesus, and their authors attempted to demonstrate that Jesus could be seen to fulfill various Old Testament pronouncements.Collection: Jay
So who is Jesus? For me, he's the central character in the greatest story ever told. It's a story about a gradually realizing kingdom that lies inside of us.Collection: Jay
In truth, Jesus did not, in his own time, attract much notice.Collection: Jay
Who was Jesus anyway? After twenty centuries, there is not much anyone can agree on. The four canonical gospels don't measure up to modern standards of biographical writing, and - outside of this material - there is precious little contemporary evidence, apart from a few glancing mentions of Jesus or the movement centered on him.Collection: Jay
I've spent a good deal of time in the Middle East over the years, lecturing at universities in places like Egypt, Jordan, Israel, and Morocco.Collection: Jay
With the Patriot Bill in place, the NSA no longer needed to get a warrant from a judge to tap into anybody's electronic information. A Surveillance State that would have boggled the mind of Orwell was born.Collection: Jay
To Western eyes and ears, Sharia law seems devoid of respect for differences of opinion or complex moral thinking. Certainly the American idea of separation between church and state is lost in Sharia-style governance.Collection: Jay
It's probably incorrect to say that Islam is 'a religion of peace,' as some politicians like to say. Overstatements like that don't clarify anything.Collection: Jay
As a Christian, I try to meditate or pray at least once a day, however briefly.Collection: Jay
I envy Muslims their practice of regular and genuine prayer. It's a beautiful practice that enriches their daily lives.Collection: Jay
The whole point of the Resurrection stories - and the Resurrection itself - is that we don't recognize Jesus when he comes back to us.Collection: Jay
It's impossible to see the face of Jesus without seeking that face in some concentrated way, in the practice of the faith, through prayer and action.Collection: Jay
The idea that owning a gun in America was an individual right only dates to the 1980s.Collection: Jay
In a country where Americans sense, quite genuinely, that their freedoms have been taken away by the government - as in the U.S. Patriot Act, as in NSA surveillance - people feel powerless.Collection: Jay
We are a nation of immigrants, a quilt of many colors, and we've managed over more than two centuries to create a way of life that allows for a reasonable degree of upward mobility, that prizes individual liberty, promotes freedom of religion and genuinely values equal rights for all citizens.Collection: Jay
American politicians who dwell on American exceptionalism only dishonor us by suggesting we play dumb to our past.Collection: Jay
Integrity matters. What our fans think matters.Collection: Jay
Many films you see in theaters are financed through outside sources. With big films, the studio will pay, hoping to reap the reward of their big bet. But with medium and small-sized films, outside production companies and financiers often foot the bill.Collection: Jay
A lot of comedies in the 1980s and 1990s had all these colors and were so brightly lit. But John Landis had this dark style, like a Scorsese film.Collection: Jay
If you're not doing something or saying something in comedy, the camera is going to go somewhere else.Collection: Jay
Look at the opening sequence of 'The Blues Brothers,' which starts at the prison. The way it was filmed, it does not look like a comedy. I thought that was great.Collection: Jay
The smartest thing a filmmaker can do is to become a good editor.Collection: Jay
Filmmaking, at the end of the day, is really - in addition to the story and all of the equipment and the actors, it's really about time management. And so the smartest filmmakers are the ones who sort of pre-visualize the film in their head and are literally shooting the shots they need to cut the story together.Collection: Jay
Violence is totally accepted in this country.Collection: Jay
Every time you jump to another format in the 'picture business,' meaning film, television, commercials, the people in the other format go, 'Ah, yeah, you made a lot of features, but you don't know how to do TV' or the commercial people go, 'Oh, you can't do 30 seconds.'Collection: Jay
When Broken Lizard writes a movie, we reject everything that doesn't have five guys as leads, so it needs to be cops or a basketball team; that's what we can do.Collection: Jay
I was pre-med for a semester, and then I got a C- in organic chemistry and was washed out of that program. Then I imagined I'd be a lawyer. I was gonna go to law school.Collection: Jay
'48 Hrs.' is very tough and funny.Collection: Jay
'Smokey and the Bandit' is tough and funny.Collection: Jay
You see any movie, and it's just a feat of human strength and perseverance. It is a brutally challenging business.Collection: Jay
I started standup at age nineteen. I decided that the only way I was going to try show business as a career was if I could make total strangers laugh.Collection: Jay