N. T. Wright Quotes
Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex.

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The decathlon takes so long to learn that people who are good athletes don't want to go back to the beginning again.
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My attitude is govern as if you've run your last race. That's not to say I've run my last race, but govern with a liberation and a freedom; change your mind frame to operate that way.
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
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When I was in school, you could pick any instrument you want, and they'd teach you how to play it. That changed my life. I loved playing music in school, and it sent me on my path as a musician.
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Don't avoid extremes, and don't choose any one extreme. Remain available to both the polarities - that is the art, the secret of balancing.
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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I was actually already doing my Ph.D. in neuroscience when September 11 happened. 'The End Of Faith' is essentially what September 11 did to my intellectual career at that moment.
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I did not want to be the best black man of the year; I wanted to be the best man of the year.
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I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.
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Readers appreciate the truth. Why say, 'Some think a situation is a mess?' Based on my reporting, if a situation is a mess, then I say that. The truth is always what reporters tell each other when they get back to the newsroom.
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Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people.
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I don't judge my characters.
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GIS is waking up the world to the power of geography, this science of integration, and has the framework for creating a better future.
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I like movies about longing and desperation, and dark and light things, stories about people struggling to raise children, and to have relationships and be intimate with each other.
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We English are good at forgiving our enemies; it releases us from the obligation of liking our friends.
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I used to sketch - that's the way I thought out loud. Then they made a book of my sketches, and I got self-conscious, so now I don't do it much.
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The acceptance of vertical differentiation with the built-in principle of self-determination must apply on as many levels as possible.
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We are working as hard as we can; we are preparing ourselves as carefully as we can; we fully intend to make our contribution to the world in the coming century.
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It's such a private thing. It's a huge decision. It's not like you wake up one day and say, 'Oh, I'm going to change my sex - won't that be fun?'
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Whenever you see, in an official lectionary, the command to omit two or three verses, you can normally be sure that they contain words of judgment. Unless, of course, they are about sex.