N. T. Wright Quotes
I accept the historical challenge, and with that, I accept the essentially Christian position that God always has more light to break out of his holy Word.
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The first movie my dad ever showed me was 'Predator' – I was five. And I think the second one was 'Jaws.'
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You must always do what you feel is right.
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My older brothers and sisters have kids and families.
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Happiness is the absence of the striving for happiness.
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I don't really go out at night in terms of noisy, busy places; I prefer more of a quiet corner somewhere.
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Boys are so much less mature than girls as it is.
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Women view men like houses. They look for fixer-uppers.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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I developed in my head that I'm never any better than my last concert or the last time I played, so it's like an audition each time. You get nervous just before going onstage. I still have that, but I think it's more like concern. You're concerned about the people - like meeting your in-laws for the first time.
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Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.
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As a New Yorker, or wherever I am, I just want to know I can get our of the house in five minutes if I have to and not have to spend a bunch of time obsessing in the mirror, trying on a million different options. Now, I just know what works.
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I sold a bunch of stuff. I sold Omaha Steaks, vacation packages... the worst, though, was Time Life Books, because no one wants Time Life Books. No one wants an 'Encyclopedia Brittanica' showing up at their house.
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Any econometrician who wants to see practical application of his science will be highly concerned with applications to economic planning at the national level.
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The current prohibition laws are forcing drug disputes to be played out with guns in our streets. We need to put a stop to this criminal drug element in our country.
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Virtue has its own reward, but no sale at the box office.
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India has given me everything. It has made me Vijay Mallya.
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No woman ever falls in love with a man unless she has a better opinion of him than he deserves.
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It's hard for me to believe someone could harm a child.
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A spatial, temporal work had only to be exhibited in a gallery and then written about and reproduced as a photograph in an art magazine. Then this record of the no longer extant installation, along with accretions of information after the fact, became the basis for its fame, and to a large extent its economic value.
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But as the Pope has a long arm, which might reach me in France, I have gone a little out of the way to tell him the plain truths contained in these pages.
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The world in which we live is the only world about which our senses can testify.
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If we don't have God in our life, we're considered dead.
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The green-light decision process today consists of maybe of 30 or 40 people.
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I accept the historical challenge, and with that, I accept the essentially Christian position that God always has more light to break out of his holy Word.
