N. T. Wright Quotes
I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.
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We've learned a lot about how information needs to flow effectively amongst a group of people. They need to be fed information, and it needs to be on this constant conveyor belt.
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I don't find an advantage or disadvantage in being a woman when reporting. What little advantages there might be in some instances is cancelled out by the basic lack of lavatories round the world for women.
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I'm just little me, an American who wants to see his country do better.
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Whether it's through introduction of the right gut bacteria or direct modification of the genes of cows and pigs, I think we're going to have to introduce something like this into our livestock - a way to consume the methane rather than releasing it.
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I was deposed by a coup d'etat, by friends that I trusted and aided by the American Government.
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English usage is sometimes more than mere taste, judgment and education - sometimes it's sheer luck, like getting across the street.
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Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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You have to shelve a lot of your inspiration. There's only so much you can do with one record.
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The vegetable life does not content itself with casting from the flower or the tree a single seed, but it fills the air and earth with a prodigality of seeds, that, if thousands perish, thousands may plant themselves, that hundreds may come up, that tens may live to maturity; that, at least one may replace the parent.
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Environmental concern is a phenomena that tends to rise in a nation after a certain level of wealth.
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There are more ways of outraging speech than contradiction merely.
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There's some quality you get when you're not totally comfortable. When you're not doing what you're used to, you could completely fall on your face. You could completely blow it.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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I grew up in Hollywood during WWII, and my mother was afraid that my father was going to be drafted because she didn't think we were going to be able to live on army pay. She didn't want to have to get a job, so she decided to put me to work, and that's how I got started in the movies.
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Girls have an unfair advantage over men: if they can't get what they want by being smart, they can get it by being dumb.
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Stevie Wonder and Diana Ross and the Jackson 5, that's what I grew up on.
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The best thing I did was to choose the right heroes.
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The smorgasbord of images now presented to us is getting bloodier. They're becoming more frequent - almost hourly.
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You work around a body and adapt the clothes to your own customer, and this is the interesting part. This is why the haute couture exists: because in ready-to-wear, you have not too much fitting.
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My first job out of college was as an editorial assistant in a New York publishing house. Being an editorial assistant is the purgatory would-be editors must endure before they can ascend the ladder and begin acquiring books on their own. I spent a year filing paperwork, writing copy, and typing rejection letters.
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If you are killing a chicken and cooking a chicken, it has to taste like chicken. Veal has to taste like veal. You have to be able to identify what you're eating. One of my worst experiences is when I can't tell what I'm eating. It is a waste.
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Whenever you're playing sports with people who are better than you are, it makes you rise to the occasion.
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The luster of an experience can actually go up with time. So, learning to play a new instrument, learning a new language - those sorts of things will pay dividends for years or decades to come.
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I think future generations will say the late 20th century and the early 21st century was a time of great convulsions and upheavals.
