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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• 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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• Out there in the spotlight you're a million miles away.Every ounce of energy you try to give away.As the sweat pours out your body like the music that you play.Later in the evening, as you lie awake in bed.With the echoes from the amplifiers ringin' in your head.You smoke the day's last cigarette, rememberin' what she said.

  

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• I was a Scout years ago, before the movement started, when my father took me fishing, camping and hunting. Then I was sorry that more girls could not have what I had. When I learned of the movement, I thought, here is what I always wanted other girls to have.

  

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• I can tell you Kristen Hager is one of my all time favorite people to work with ever and one of the greatest scene partners, and I'm such a lucky guy.

  

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• I can only hope that my future movies will do well.

  

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• I have an avocado tree at my place in Los Angeles - it's the smoother-skinned one, which tends to be a little stringy. Often the birds or raccoons get the avocados before I can harvest them. I have figs, too, which are great with prosciutto, of course. I have limes and lemons, which I use to make lemonade.

  

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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.

  

  N. T. Wright
  • Time
  • Great
  • Future