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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Brave men do not gather by thousands to torture and murder a single individual, so gagged and bound he cannot make even feeble resistance or defense.
Ida B. Wells
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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.
Daley Thompson
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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.
Rahm Emanuel
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If you stop being scared, that's when entropy sets in, and you may as well go home.
Tamsin Greig
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In my second year in graduate school, I took a computer course and that was like lightening striking.
Ted Nelson
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I must never write when I do not want to write.
Langston Hughes
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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.
Flea Jane's Addiction
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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.
Rajneesh
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Art is subjective. I'm not looking for people's praise.
Tali Lennox
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
Yani Tseng
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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.
Sam Harris
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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.
Daley Thompson
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I don't go to places where I'm going to get mobbed.
Fran Drescher
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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.
Kara Swisher
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Not a lot of people have jobs that they're really comfortable with, but I'm one of those people.
Maisie Williams
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I don't judge my characters.
Orhan Pamuk
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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.
Jack Dangermond
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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.
Laura Dern
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I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as well through their lives. Why did I do that to them?
Karl Ove Knausgaard
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I like the hot-cold, the sugar-salt, being able to play over-the-top and dramatic things - in the same film. Just as in my life, I can be very funny and at other times almost extinguished.
Jean Dujardin
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I feel like a lot of black men 'put on' because of what they see and because of what people tell them they have to be.
Ashton Sanders
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That's what the best global conservation organisations and the American government (and other environmentally inclined governments, such as Sweden and the Netherlands) are doing: protecting the remaining wild environment. This is the equivalent of getting a patient to the emergency room - keep them alive and then figure out how to save them.
E. O. Wilson
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Some time ago, I learned how to say, 'What's the worst thing that could happen up there?' I could mess up some words, I could sing flat... I could appear human. Is that really the worst thing in the world?
Ann Wilson Heart
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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.
N. T. Wright