Deborah Harkness Quotes
The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.
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If men can quilt and take over the kitchen, then women can pick up a wrench and fix a leaky pipe.
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I've wanted to write comics ever since I figured out it was a job.
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The humor is essentially dark for a cartoon and sophisticated. But at the same time, being a cartoon gives the writers more freedom than in a normal sitcom. It always pushes the line that, despite human failings, the Simpsons are really decent people.
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I married the first man I ever kissed. When I tell this to my children, they just about throw up.
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Robots are good at things that are structured.
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If it's a good song, it's a good song. I'll take it.
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Socialism requires that government becomes your god.
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Christ's strength is manifest in our weakness, so if we had everything together there would be no need for Him.
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We read Robert Browning's poetry. Here we needed no guidance from the professor: the poems themselves were enough.
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I take my work seriously.
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All Hollywood corrupts; and absolute Hollywood corrupts absolutely.
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I think we live in a culture where it is really difficult to get privacy because everything is so accessible. It's very difficult to maintain your comfortable life with a sort of mystique.
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The United Nations Children's Fund reports that more than 18 million children worldwide have lost both parents to the ravages of AIDS, starvation, war or natural disasters.
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After the fall of dictator Nicolae Ceausescu, Romanians were crazed with happiness. People who never met each other before hugged each other in the streets - convinced that tomorrow things would look different. Then came the many disappointments.
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South Africa is labouring to find its revolutionary path; the colours of the Rainbow Nation have difficulty blending together; the wealthy elites (white, black or Indian) profit from de facto segregation.
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Public appearances are a headache. I hold mine down to a minimum.
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Food is not a means toward resolution. It can't cure heartbreak or solve untenable dilemmas.
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After God and my family, it's surf. I don't imagine me not surfing. Surf brings me smile every day.
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Any time the Western way of war can be unleashed on an enemy stupid enough to enter its arena, victory is assured.
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Having a stadium in France named after a footballer from the Ivory Coast, even if I'm proud of my France-Ivory Coast background, is a great proof of integration.
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The style of the Bible in general is singularly adapted to men of every class and grade of culture, affording the child the simple nourishment for its religious wants, and the profoundest thinker inexhaustible matter of study.
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St. Teresa of Avila wrote: 'All difficulties in prayer can be traced to one cause: praying as if God were absent.' This is the conviction that we bring with us from early childhood and apply to everyday life and to our lives in general. It gets stronger as we grow up, unless we are touched by the Gospel and begin the spiritual journey. This journey is a process of dismantling the monumental illusion that God is distant or absent.
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The plain truth is that the period I study is the 16th century, and they were absolutely obsessed with witches and spiritual beings.
