N. T. Wright Quotes
Indian leaders are saying, "You don't understand our caste system. It's really a lovely thing. People are very happy about it and so on." I don't think that's quite fair.
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I didn't make any friends in New York by insisting on moving the league headquarters to Cincinnati. The fact was that my son Bill was in school. His mother had passed away, and I didn't want to take the boy away from his school and to a strange city.
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Books are not like albums, where you can simply download and enjoy your favorite chapter and ignore the rest.
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At the end of the day, I'd love to see children stop begging their parents to go to the circus. That's what would make me most happy.
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My work has always been the thing that justifies my life.
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I've grown up playing for some incredible coaches, and I don't think anybody's ever been as fortunate as I have in terms of the people I've been allowed to play under, coach under, or be involved with.
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The Navy runs their process. The House of Representatives doesn't do anything about their process. We do not select. Navy officers select.
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The Wood was about young people and the other one is more of a grown up movie.
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It's about discipline. It's about following instructions. It's about the execution of the plan. That's what sport is.
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We look back at the 1990 Clean Air Act amendments, where people screamed and hollered it's going to be too expensive, they couldn't afford it, and it wouldn't work. And it worked. It worked faster than people expected, at much less cost.
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I'd rather play a tune on a horn, but I've always felt that I didn't want to train myself. Because when you get a train, you've got to have an engine and a caboose. I think it's better to train the caboose. You train yourself, you strain yourself.
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There's a finite amount of time on this planet for each of us. Sometimes, the only way we figure out how to deal with that reality - knowing that there will be an end to every story, and you don't know how many chapters are left in your book - is by living in denial.
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Take your average couscous salad, and it's almost always a sloppy mush, no matter how much attention has gone into getting flavours in there.
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IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.
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The Indian market is potentially the largest market in the world with the leadership at both central and state level focused on leapfrogging into the future.
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Now, I guess, people want stars. People are trying to invent stars.
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I think women today are really struggling with these dual roles: How do you have a full-time career and be ambitious and still take care of your family?
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Imagine: in the medieval ages, there was no evidence of how the history of mankind has been affected by witchcraft. But there is significant factual history of how brutality and sadism of mankind have been displayed in the most obscene manner in the name of witch-hunt.
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I've had a few conversations with people who are horrified: who tell me my work is demeaning, is sexist, is negative.
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My students are noticed by the people I respect from the quality of their work.
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We live in a country where people still get beaten to death because of their sexual orientation.
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People's judgments of their capabilities to organize and execute courses of action required to attain designated types of performances.
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Baseball was the darling of all sports back then.
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When good men die their goodness does not perish.
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Indian leaders are saying, "You don't understand our caste system. It's really a lovely thing. People are very happy about it and so on." I don't think that's quite fair.
