N. T. Wright Quotes
Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.
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Take a simple name like Nicholas: you can rhyme it with ridiculous. If you aren't too meticulous. You know, every word's rhymable.
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You know, I'm kind of a wild crazy workaholic guy.
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The hardest thing in the world to do is to have someone in a seat in a theater laughing so hard that they're making weird sounds.
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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Gymnastics, especially in my family, is more than a sport. It's our life, it's our careers, it's our family business.
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If you are sure you understand everything that is going on, you are hopelessly confused.
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Your mind, while blessed with permanent memory, is cursed with lousy recall. Written goals provide clarity. By documenting your dreams, you must think about the process of achieving them.
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This is how to avoid re-creating painful situations: Take the time to discover your real intention before you act. If it is to change someone or the world so that you will feel safe or better about yourself, don't act on it, because it is an intention of fear and can create only painful consequences.
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I'm like a packrat with work. I hoard my jobs.
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I fear my enthusiasm flags when real work is demanded of me.
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I'd never want to do something just for the show of it.
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They're desperately searching for meaning in their lives but they will not crack the Bible open.
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What higher art does is to invite us in and allow us to make decisions.
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I just got a band together in mid-2012, and we played our first show in October of that year.
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Dancers, many dancers today can do so much technically. You can give them steps that are complicated, then more complicated, pyrotechnical - and they can execute these steps to perfection. But to do simple steps with a pure classical line, that is truly difficult.
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In cognitively demanding fields, there are no naturals. Nobody walks into an operating room straight out of a surgical rotation and does world-class neurosurgery.
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I feel like you learn how to do school in second grade through fifth grade. During those years, I was never home.
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I have no desire to make money off musicians. I just want to promote them because I want to share music.
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A wise man distrusts his neighbor. A wiser man distrusts both his neighbor and himself. The wisest man of all distrusts his government.
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Lots of comics try stuff out all year round, which is very sensible - I don't.
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I am a writer who has written about the life of my people, the character of my people. What I can say is that the greatest hero of the Brazilian novel is the Brazilian people.
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I've always been drawn to all kinds of music - to me, it's all the same. There's different arrangements and slightly different ways of writing, but if it's a good song, it's a good song - you can dress it up any way you like.
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Arguments about God are like pointing a flashlight toward the sky to see if the sun is shining.
