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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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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There is a fundamental notion at the core of American identity that, in this country, any little boy or girl can grow up to be president.
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The 1993 Trade Center bombing was obviously frightening. It could have been much worse than it was.
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The head of Fermilab was reading Astonishing Stories when he was ten.
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I used to save all my rejection slips because I told myself, one day I'm going to autograph these and auction them. And then I lost the box.
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I did a law degree but was miserable the whole time. I was supposed to join a law firm in London but instead went to Oxford to do a master's in philosophy.
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Some people haven't got a life, I suppose. They want to be on the road all the time.
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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.
