Bruce Wilkinson Quotes
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The running joke about the Premio Cervantes, the most coveted literary prize in the Spanish-speaking world, which was established by Spain's Ministry of Culture in 1976, is that Cervantes himself wouldn't have received it. This is because he was, in his heart, the most anti-Spanish of Spanish writers.
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I go to Malawi twice a year. It's where two of my children were adopted from, and I have a lot of projects there that I go and check up on and children who I look after. It's sort of a commitment that I've made to this country and the hundreds of thousands of children there who have been orphaned by AIDS.
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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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Insurrection of thought always precedes insurrection of arms.
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The good news is that real-world hands-on conservation is alive and well and catching on across the America I travel.
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Police are not all bad guys. Nobody is all bad guys.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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Stealing things is a glorious occupations, particularly in the art world.
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My brother is really, really slow.
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Disease is the tax which the soul pays for the body, as the tenant pays house-rent for the use of the house.
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I must stick with Chinese language films.
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I needed to purge myself of all the attention my parents had given me – I wasn't neglected enough as a child.
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However, if the religions in essence merely repeat statements from the United Nations Human Rights Declaration, such a Declaration becomes superfluous; an ethic is more than rights.
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My notion of a wife at 40 is that a man should be able to change her, like a bank note, for two 20s.
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I did charity events with the Cup all the time.
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My parents were Beatle fans, but my mom was especially a Lennon fan, so I was exposed to him more. I remember her playing 'Double Fantasy' quite often.
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I don't think I want to transition into being a recording artist for the rest of my life or anything like that, but it's something I'd like to try.
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I'm a pretty terrible rapper. I always have been.
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Many people think they cannot have knowledge or understanding of God without reading books. But hearing is better than reading, and seeing is better than hearing. Hearing about Benares is different from reading about it; but seeing Benares is different from either hearing or reading.
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My chief literary influences have been Paul Laurence Dunbar, Carl Sandburg, and Walt Whitman. My favorite public figures include Jimmy Durante, Marlene Dietrich, Mary McLeod Bethune, Mrs. Franklin D. Roosevelt, Marian Anderson, and Henry Armstrong.
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In 'The Odyssey,' every feast is extremely ritualized; high-status individuals even get a better cut of meat.
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My first gig with Metallica was at San Quentin State Penitentiary.
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Most people think that Heaven is a choir, and all you will do is sing.
