David Novak Quotes
The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged in face-to-face argumentation, Jews and Christians spoke about each other in essentially disputational terms.
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I work hard at my job, and I guess hard work pays off.
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It's very hard to teach someone how to write a song if to begin with there's no creative crop to harvest.
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The colonel replied that he didn't care how my men had got the job done. He was happy that it had been accomplished. He said that, obviously, no matter how much or how little I knew technically, I was able to get the best out of people I worked with.
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Better treatment and detection methods have also improved the survival rate for people with cancer, and for the first time in history, this year the absolute number of cancer deaths in the U.S. has decreased.
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What we all want is public safety. We don't want rhetoric that's framed through ideology.
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We know the threats - from global terrorist networks to the spread of deadly weapons. Yet we also know that embedded in this time of danger is the promise of a new day, if we have the courage and commitment to work together.
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The people, and the people alone, are the motive force in the making of world history.
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When I read the 'Country Strong' script, I thought, 'Can't they just hand-double it? Can't I just do the rest of the movie and not have to do the performing?' It took me six months to learn to sing and play guitar at the same time.
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Brooklyn's good. Brooklyn's funky. Brooklyn's happening.
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I believe that it's better to have a conviction, believe strongly in something, and then the convictions create a style that reflects your mentality.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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It's true that every leader needs followers. We can't all be nonconformists at every moment, but conformity is dangerous - especially for an entity in formation.
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We need to rekindle those values, those strengths as a nation and as a people... And we must do so as one people with one goal.
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The thing that bothers me about journalism is the false equivalency we sometimes place on certain issues.
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Literary imagination is an aesthetic object offered by a writer to a lover of books.
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People with advantages are loath to believe that they just happen to be people with advantages.
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I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
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Learn to love being black.
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Having lived a full and stimulating life before I had my kids, I've relished every minute I've had to spend with them and felt a degree of confidence in dealing with their trials and tribulations to date.
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If you like your healthcare plan, you'll be able to keep your healthcare plan, period. No one will take it away, no matter what.
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I've started getting acclimated to writing on the road and on the spot. I just let whatever I feel at the time come out, instead of really sitting there and taking days to write just one song.
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If you did something, and it wasn't right, you definitely found out about it. And they were pretty smart people, both my parents, so you didn't get too much by them.
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The theological contacts between Jews and Christians during much of the premodern period are best characterized as disputations. Even when not engaged in face-to-face argumentation, Jews and Christians spoke about each other in essentially disputational terms.
