Desmond Tutu Quotes
People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
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It's interesting that one of the definitions of the word 'human' is 'sympathetic.' More and more people are beginning to show that they understand why that is important.
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You need a routine, to be able to spend some time with a person, and my lifestyle is constantly on the move.
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To be perfectly truthful, I was not a very brilliant student, even at chemistry school.
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You can mostly forget ethnic or religious differences. The competition for a bigger share of the oil proceeds is behind much of the fighting.
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There comes a time when money doesn't matter.
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If I just did music, I might go insane. I need words; I need stories. And it's the same the other way around.
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When you're surrounded by all these people, it can be even lonelier than when you're by yourself. You can be in a huge crowd, but if you don't feel like you can trust anybody or talk to anybody, you feel like you're really alone.
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Any guy that's not working with the same amount of intensity and passion that I do, I don't want to know.
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I grew up watching 'Raging Bull.'
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I wanted to see how flavors, spices, and grains traveled back and forth along the Silk Road and were interpreted by a multitude of cultures' palates.
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I got in a really bad accident in a Toyota vehicle, but I feel like the safety of the vehicle and God really saved my life.
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I believe America wants and needs the shared experience of television. We far too often see in crises how television brings us together.
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I'm not a business girl. I will never be a business girl, but I will say, for Anna Wintour, that I respect successful people; I like things that are success.
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Going to hospital is rather like going to an alien planet.
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If it's a cocktail party, I generally make five or six different things, and I try to choose recipes that feel like a meal: a chicken thing, a fish or shrimp thing, maybe two vegetable things, and I think it's fun to end the cocktail party with a sweet thing.
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When I was coming up as a kid, there were programs that kept me out of trouble and on the straight and narrow in South Central Los Angeles, and I always felt that when I got to a stage where I could provide similar opportunities to kids then I would do that.
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I miss my horse. He's in Los Angeles.
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Online hierarchies are inherently dynamic. The moment someone stops adding value to the community, his influence starts to wane.
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At the drop of a hat, people will say there are no roles for women after 40. It's there with a bunch of other rules I'm not interested in.
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To conquer others is to have power, to conquer yourself is to know the way.
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Rodgers and Hammerstein didn't mean anything to me. I just wanted to have a hit, I just wanted to be like those people on the radio. It was all of a case of the present tense with no projecting into the future, particularly.
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I love fashion as an art; I love fashion as costume, as a character. I don't like dictates and the phoniness of appearance.
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I never worry that I'll die in my sleep, because I'm never asleep!
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People often speak of God being even-handed. God is not even-handed. God is biased, in favor of the weak, of the despised.
