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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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 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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I can write best in the silence and solitude of the night, when everyone has retired.
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If we cling to the institution of Islam, then we tend to defend it against whatever we see as a danger to it, so because of this we see now that many people are defending states, defending territories, defending everything institutional in the belief that they defend Islam.
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I've always found that once you're in the door of a place and you have the chance to show how you operate and how talented you are, then anything can happen.
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They don't ask much of you. They only want you to hate the things you love and to love the things you despise.
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After 'Heart Skips A Beat' hit No.1, I barely had a chance to celebrate 'cos it was straight over to the judges' houses for the 'Xtra Factor,' filming in Greece, L.A. and Spain.
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I'm sure every time I bring something out that isn't New Order, people say it sounds like New Order.
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We had so many friends who did the band thing, and one of their first moves was to go on tour, and they'd just blow all their money.
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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.
