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
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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 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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Every generation is obsessed with the decade before they were born.
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I don't try to hurt people in any way, and I try to help out wherever I can.
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If you have a startup that's keeping it up at night because you think it's so great, then you should do that.
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Next to the Word of God, the noble art of music is the greatest treasure in the world.
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In the midterm elections, a 102-year-old woman voted for the first time in a U.S. election. Unfortunately, she voted for Woodrow Wilson.
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Be influenced by nothing but your clients' interests. Tell them the truth.
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I was making films about American society, and it is true that I never felt at home there, except perhaps when my wife and I lived on a farm in the San Fernando Valley.
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My job was to produce plutonium that was used for atomic bomb.
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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
