N. T. Wright Quotes
But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the world being put to rights, even though we find it so elusive. We're like moths trying to fly to the moon. We all know there's something called justice, but we can't quite get to it.
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For the last seven years, I have been racing the best in the world and making my way through the ranks. I am in that spot where I have got a real opportunity to produce something. I am not going to take it for granted because I know those guys will step it up.
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The real drawback to the simple life is that it is not simple. If you are living it, you positively can do nothing else. There is not time.
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Any fool can write a novel but it takes real genius to sell it.
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My problem was my inability to spend much time at home. I thought my family was secure, so I went running around everyplace else. I guess I had more of an effect on other people's kids than I did my own.
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Iris Murdoch did influence my early novels very much, and influence is never entirely good.
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We served on the editorial board of a literary monthly called Face in 1968 and 1969. He was a young writer, and I was also interested in broad cultural issues. We agreed on all major issues and became friends.
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I was raised to believe that excellence is the best deterrent to racism or sexism. And that's how I operate my life.
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I always wondered what it would be like to have a normal childhood.
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If one girl with courage is a revolution, imagine what feats we can achieve together.
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I am a big fan of movies that don't take themselves too seriously. You know you won't change the world, but have fun. Movies like 'Butch Cassidy' I enjoyed tremendously, but it didn't alter my opinion of the world.
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God cannot alter the past, though historians can.
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One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.
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But the character was so successful, that first one, that they wrote him again and he came in right at the end of the first year in a show called THE BOX. I was up for the Emmy for that one too.
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Aim for the moon. If you miss, you may hit a star.
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It's fun to present stories that have a character that, really, everybody wants to be.
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How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
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The longer you play, the better chance the better player has of winning.
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I just remember the early days of Tenacious D. There was no talk or thought about doing a TV show or a movie.
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Every country possesses, it seems, the sort of cuisine it deserves, which is to say the sort of cuisine it is appreciative enough to want.
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I have always been suspicious of romantic love. It looks too much like a narcissism shared by two.
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I wanted to shoot straight, mainstream, somehow off-beat. Not only realistic West, which is quite unfamiliar to the world's population - even to a lot of Americans.
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I think that selling rights is a bad move commercially, not just morally. It cheapens the songs. When people come to my concerts, they often hold up candles when we do "Let It Be." I don't think they'd do that anymore if the song suddenly became part of an Oldsmobile ad.
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Each year, therefore, a dollar spent on alcoholic beverages has purchased a smaller quantity.
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But the voice goes on, calling us, beckoning us, luring us to think that there might be such a thing as justice, as the world being put to rights, even though we find it so elusive. We're like moths trying to fly to the moon. We all know there's something called justice, but we can't quite get to it.
