N. T. Wright Quotes
The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to frighten away anyone following the historical argument where it leads. It is high time the birds learned to take no notice.N. T. Wright
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I really enjoy comedy. It's a real challenge.
Ted Levine -
We as women have a voice and we are decision makers in what film to see. We always support our boyfriends and husbands by going to see the male dominated films, but we don't compel them to see films with female casts.
Octavia Spencer -
To try to fix the future is a manifest absurdity.
Iain Sinclair -
I love high heels from the age of 10! Short skirts and then high heels. My classmates used to make fun of me. Like, 'Ooh, she's so skinny and she's wearing high heels.' But I just wore what I like, and I didn't care about people's opinions, the same as I don't care now.
Irina Shayk -
I really appreciate people like Rosie coming out and saying I've inspired them.
Wanda Jackson -
Some players are more physical than others, some play with more finesse. Some are just really great all-around players. So you have to change your game.
Oscar Robertson
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I know how to read people. When you grow up in a rough environment, you have to have a sixth sense.
Daddy Yankee -
In Japan, there is less a culture of preserving old buildings than in Europe.
Tadao Ando -
As an actor, you don't want to play a one-dimensional character.
Olga Kurylenko -
Any pitcher who might throw at me should know I'm not giving up my day job or trying to get anyone else's job. I just can't think of anything cooler than being one of the boys of summer!
Garth Brooks -
My retiring days are behind me – they're going to have to throw me out now.
Garth Brooks -
Truth is not a matter of personal viewpoint.
Vernon Howard
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If I think back on the books to which I have devoted my entire life, I am most surprised by those moments when I have felt as if the sentences, dreams, and pages that have made me so ecstatically happy have not come from my own imagination - that another power has found them and generously presented them to me.
Orhan Pamuk -
There's no such thing as a specific authenticity to what Mexico is, because Mexico is incredibly complex and varied, and the food is completely different if you travel 50 kilometers. It just changes all the time.
Gael Garcia Bernal -
I stay true to myself and my style, and I am always pushing myself to be aware of that and be original.
Aaliyah -
I never had planned for my life and my career.
Yasmine Al Masri -
I haven't even graduated from high school yet - and I've realised in the last four years, with all the travelling I've done and all of the movies I've made, that the world is my classroom. I've experienced things I don't know you can necessarily get from reading a history book.
Hailee Steinfeld -
I'm happy riding horses and getting out shooting my gun, things like that.
Randy Travis
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Kip Keino, Moses Tanui, Paul Tergat, they all come from my tribe. Some say it is the food we eat that makes us strong, the way we live. In the history of our people we wear no clothes and we are used to drinking the blood of animals.
Martin Lel -
I want to make a drug. I want the science to be more than imaginary, where I think, 'We're learning these fundamental principles, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.' I think we are doing that, but I want to do something really practical. I want to actually, in my lifetime, help people.
Bonnie Bassler -
The writer operates at a peculiar crossroads where time and place and eternity somehow meet. His problem is to find that location.
Flannery O'Connor -
I'd say there was a fair amount of skepticism at the time about whether the Internet held any promise. And of course I felt that it did.
Jim Clark -
Quite often when I record a song, writing it and making a demo is the big thing and, after that, I think, how do I actually translate this into real life? A lot of the time I think I can't be bothered.
Mick Jagger The Rolling Stones -
The natural/supernatural distinction itself, and the near-equation of 'supernatural' with 'superstition', are scarecrows that Enlightenment thought has erected in its fields to frighten away anyone following the historical argument where it leads. It is high time the birds learned to take no notice.
N. T. Wright