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 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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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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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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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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If you are ambitious to talk well, you must be as much as possible in the society of well-bred, cultured people. If you seclude yourself, though you are a college graduate, you will be a poor converser.
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The test of good manners is to be able to put up pleasantly with bad ones.
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I'm more liberated and happy than I've been my whole life. I'm just happy.
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Downloading songs is not good.
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I'm the only American alive or dead who presided unhappily over the removal of a vice president and a president.
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I want people around the world to hear me. To all those who would do us harm, no act of terror will go unpunished. It will not dim the light of the values that we proudly present to the rest of the world. No act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America.
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I couldn't walk down any street in Britain without being laughed at. It was a nightmare. My children were devastated because their dad was a figure of ridicule.
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You load 16 tons, and what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. St. Peter don't you call me 'cause I can't go. I owe my soul to the company store.
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Under the opening eyelids of the morn,We drove afield; and both together heardWhat time the gray-fly winds her sultry horn,Batt'ning our flocks with the fresh dews of night.
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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.
