Jim Wallis Quotes
Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
Quotes to Explore
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China has the best opportunities. A domestic market with 1.3bn people will help create more Fortune 500 retailers.
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America's victory in the Cold War was not without painful social costs.
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My father was a civil servant in northern India where I was born. As a boy I saw the dire effects of poverty and illiteracy, especially on women and children. It often seemed that the only thing separating me from them was luck.
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This is what people need: an easy-to-deploy, easy-to-use tool.
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I like nicotine because it excites my brain and helps me work.
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So, two cheers for Democracy: one because it admits variety and two because it permits criticism.
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It's no easy task to either make money online as a publisher or to advertise your product in a world where attention is so fleeting and divided.
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People are crying up the rich and variegated plumage of the peacock, and he is himself blushing at the sight of his ugly feet.
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The kids from the streets don't want preaching or messages. They want what they can identify with. They want to hear about the reality of their situation, not fairy tales. They don't care if it's ugly; they just want reality.
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I was approached in Texas to be a model a few times. One of my first jobs was the cover of a CD.
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I shall always respect the composer. If I embellish, it is his idea I am embellishing.
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I think the media world is adjusting to the digital age.
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With 'Free Agent Nation,' I was figuring out how to write a book along with writing the book. Now I think I've kind of, sort of figured out how to write a book a little bit better. But the process remains not that different - slow; laborious; tiny, incremental progress each day, punctuated by feelings of despair and self-loathing.
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It takes people a while to trust you.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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My second job has been to try to use my power to create institutions of a modern state that could enter the European Union, and there was very little time. The door was closing, and I wanted to get Bosnia through before it shut.
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My paintings do not have a center, but depend on the same amount of interest throughout.
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Some people manage their writing by saying, 'I need to get 2,000 words written today,' others by saying, 'I will write for X hours.' Not me. I start with a plan for the book, break it down into scenes, and I know what scenes need to get written each day. If the scene takes more words than I thought, so be it.
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Any time you bring sexuality into the comics pages, you have to brace for pushback.
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Fishing ... is a sport invented by insects and you are the bait.
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The theater I got to do informs every move I make as an actor and will for the rest of my life. I can't shake it if I wanted to, but I don't want to.
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In the factory we make cosmetics; in the drugstore we sell hope.
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We need open minds and open hearts when we wrestle with the past and ask questions of it, and the answers it will provide are in nobody's pocket... We should let nobody tell us that they know all that it contains, or try to prescribe or constrain in advance what it has to tell us.
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Hope unbelieved is always considered nonsense. But hope believed is history in the process of being changed.
