Feisal Abdul Rauf Quotes
I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
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I'm not going to buy my kids an encyclopedia. Let them walk to school like I did.
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I want to go into science class and awaken that spark that makes learning possible.
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We did a remake of Lost in Space. Filmed it in London for four months.
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Vinyl is democratic, as surely as the iPod is fascist. Vinyl is representational: It has a face. Two faces, in fact, to represent the dualism of human nature. Vinyl occupies physical space honestly, proud as a fat woman dancing.
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Sometimes a chord on a guitar will somehow spur some thought in your head, and you will write a song about it.
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I mean, I was always interested in people like Lenny Bruce, people who are breaking the old rules and making new ones.
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Integrity is so perishable in the summer months of success.
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I can go to a country song, go right into it and make it sound authentic. And I think that's because of my ear as an impressionist.
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Take, for example, the African jungle, the home of the cheetah. On whom does the cheetah prey? The old, the sick, the wounded, the weak, the very young, but never the strong. Lesson: If you would not be prey, you had better be strong.
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I will be up at 8 A.M. making spaghetti bolognese for Peter and Sophia's evening meal if I'm working that day. I may not get back for the evening, and I worry if I don't do that, then they won't eat anything.
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It gets pretty boring when all you are is the support system for a male character.
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I stand by the principle of honesty, fair play, and trustworthiness.
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I'll never get out of politics. I have friends in public office. I have things that I want to do. You can't go back in life. I won't go back to the existence I had before of running a political consulting firm and signing up clients and advising campaigns in exactly that way.
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I can't even read notes. But I can teach someone how to make a guitar smoke.
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Americans are very easygoing people. If the added attention and great visibility that I have been able to generate can help open doors and expose more Chinese to American values and the American way of life, that is great.
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Our society wants things to grow, and our society wants things to become bigger and bigger. Everything has to be put under the spotlight.
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Jung viewed Freud as a mentor, but he never wanted to be anybody's disciple.
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And whoever walks a furlong without sympathy walks to his own funeral drest in his shroud.
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For a while... to be an evangelical meant you were a white Republican, and you were against this and against that. I don't want to be put into that mold, because then people judge you before they even listen... I don't want to divide the very people I am trying to reach.
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Now you have to be a collaborator and you have to bring on governments and convince people.
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People talk about perfect timing, but I think everything is perfect in its moment; you just want to capture that.
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Now I know why I'm here. Not for a closer look at the moon, but to look back at our home, the Earth.
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Anything but Hillary Clinton. Because I think Hillary Clinton means war.
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I've spoken with friends who are rabbis and priests and we've agreed that most people have an emotional attachment to their faith, a desire to fulfill their spiritual longings, but they are not experts in understanding the history of their religion.
