N. T. Wright Quotes
It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we can, celebrate in advance the healing of the world, the new creation itself. Art, music, literature, dance, theater, and many other expressions of human delight and wisdom, can all be explored in new ways.
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I'm a little sheepish about it. Whenever I meet fans and they're like, 'Oh, you're so sexy,' I just don't get that. There's no way one man can be universally sexy.
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Thoughts without content are empty, intuitions without concepts are blind.
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Doing a kid's movie is fun when you have kids. You don't want to do kids' movies if you don't have kids. When you have kids, things change in your life.
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Often what we do is open our house for various charity events. I don't seat according to protocol. I don't invite people because of who they are in the administration or their positions of power. The few who do come, are there because I like them.
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I didn't write the book to sell the book, but to tell my experiences.
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We're going to have shortages and prices are going to go up. Gasoline is going to be extremely tight for us.
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When you can throw 97 miles an hour and put the ball over the plate anytime you want, it's fun.
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Maybe I was unpopular a bit because I was a teacher's pet. But even the teachers complained about me. They would say to my parents, 'For every one question any pupil asks, Walter asks 10.'
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We all have our strengths and our failings.
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A filial son to his father can be a traitorous subject to his ruler.
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When I was very little my mother said I used to draw in the air with my fingers. I needed a pencil. Once I could hold one, I have drawn every day since.
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I've always been working just to be a world champion and it's a dream come true.
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First you take a drink, then the drink takes a drink, then the drink takes you.
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The alleged menace of universal suffrage having been avoided by the absolute suppression of the negro vote, the spirit of mob murder should have been satisfied and the butchery of negroes should have ceased.
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Once people take ownership over the decision to receive feedback, they're less defensive about it.
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I think what was frustrating to see a lot of good people go. You don't picture it, you don't imagine it, don't think it could happen. When it does, you are puzzled.
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You do silly things for love sometimes and not-so-smart things for love.
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One never knows whether people have principles on principle or whether for their own personal satisfaction.
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That's free enterprise, friends: freedom to gamble, freedom to lose. And the great thing - the truly democratic thing about it - is that you don't even have to be a player to lose.
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With the best intentions, the job of acting can become a display of accumulated bad habits, trapped instincts and blocked energies. Working with the Alexander Technique has given me sightings of another way... Mind and body, work and life together. Real imaginative freedom...
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I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.
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When we tend to the areas of life that are important to us, when we make those things a priority, that's when we will flourish in those areas.
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To our allies and our friends and our partners. Listen closely. We are with you. America will not abandon you.
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It is central to Christian living that we should celebrate the goodness of creation, ponder its present brokenness, and, insofar as we can, celebrate in advance the healing of the world, the new creation itself. Art, music, literature, dance, theater, and many other expressions of human delight and wisdom, can all be explored in new ways.
