Philip Yancey Quotes
People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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President Obama vowed in his State of the Union address to make assisting domestic manufacturers a top priority for his second term.
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I've always loved to help people, young people in particular.
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Advertising is a racket, like the movies and the brokerage business. You cannot be honest without admitting that its constructive contribution to humanity is exactly minus zero.
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I was thinking about the women of Pakistan, those who are not allowed to get education, those who are not allowed to do whatever they want to do in their life. I hope that the families will understand that the contribution of women is important and can be more powerful for building a greater country.
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Forget mung beans' reputation as healthy yet bland - used right, they soak up loads of flavour.
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I want to show every part of me and every color of me. And I think, growing up Albanian, I wanted to bring that to light.
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Two hundred years ago, our precursors in Haiti struck a blow for freedom, which was heard around the world, and across centuries.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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I write about wounds, the eternal treasons of life. It's not very funny, but it's sincere. My commitment is to sincerity.
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With a film, you just don't have time to build sympathy for the character. But I think we're moving away from that in TV. With TV, you have a little more leeway to allow them to rise and fall and rise again and be much more complicated beings.
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I have two children who died before reaching 30, so who am I to complain about being alive?
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Maurice was a silly man. Maurice liked being silly.
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One of the things that would be great is to some day have so many women comedy writers that we wouldn't say there's just one type of female humor. There's lots.
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I deliberately try not to cater for the commercial market, so I can't see myself in competition, you know, with second or third generation rock stars.
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As I understand, the role of the federal judiciary, the role of our court system, is to provide justice.
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Well, I certainly wouldn't want to live in the 18th century myself, or the 19th either, for that matter.
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Improving oversight of hedge funds and other private funds is vital to their sustainability and to our economy's stability.
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You say something, things you would rather forget, and then they are out there. It makes me anxious and I don't know why people are interested in me anyway. If I had my way, I would rather exist in a little hole and not speak to anyone.
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To me, throwback means I'm a smart player. I know how to play the game. I'm very skilled. I do a lot of things that other people don't do.
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I don't need much more money, and I thought that when I retired that nobody would want to talk to me anymore. Then I did, and people still want to talk to me.
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Singing and dancing are the greatest emotional outlets you can have.
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The less somebody knows and understand himself the less great he is, however great may be his talent. For this reason our scientists are not great.
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People instinctively know the difference between something done with a profit motive and something done with a love motive.
