N. T. Wright Quotes
When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about the liberation of his true covenant people, the true return from exile, the beginning of the new world order
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I was not meant to go deer hunting every fall.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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Mostly people are ignorant, what is the language of painting. You know, they're ignorant. It is so difficult to make them aware, but time will teach them.
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There's only two people in your life you should lie to... the police and your girlfriend.
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I don't pretend to be anything but an actor and a writer.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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The nature of good fiction is that it dwells in ambiguity.
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The civil rights movement wasn't easy for anybody.
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I feel that the world is increasingly about the bottom line, and not so much about human respect or human dignity. In that regard, people who care about other people will not be in a position to make choices and do things that other people who they're competing against will get to do.
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When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.
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The underdog often starts the fight, and occasionally the upper dog deserves to win.
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I wasn't interested in exploiting myself.
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I own a guitar, a piano, a bass.
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I've always believed that if you are precise in your thoughts, it's not the lines you say that are important - it's what exists between the lines. What I'm compelled by most is that transparency of thought, what is left unspoken.
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You have to respect your audience. Without them, you're essentially standing alone, singing to yourself.
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I put my thoughts in a book, which must mean I don't want anyone to read them.
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I played didgeridoo from a young age - on the vacuum cleaner, initially.
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It was that which gave promise that in due time the weights should be lifted from the shoulders of all men, and that all should have an equal chance. This is the sentiment embodied in that Declaration of Independence.
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Nothing in life is promised except death.
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All religions are, in some basic sense, irrational.
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Laughter, and the broader category of humor, are key elements in helping us go on with our life after a loss.
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The only thing documentary filmmakers have to work with, at least the way I make films, is trust. That's been true of everyone from James Carville and George Stephanopoulos to the kids in 'American High' to the soldiers in 'Military Diaries' to Anna Wintour to Dick Cheney.
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We need to show mercy. I mean, because as much mercy as you show people, that's the mercy you're going to be receiving.
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When Jerusalem is destroyed, and Jesus' people escape from the ruin just in time, that will be YHWH becoming king, bringing about the liberation of his true covenant people, the true return from exile, the beginning of the new world order
