Gene Robinson Quotes
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.Gene Robinson
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Reading allows me to recharge my batteries.
Rahul Dravid -
I'd like to be remembered as one who kept my priorities in the right order.
S. Truett Cathy -
Some of modern engineering is necessary to good art. But I think of myself is a cultural artist.
Larry Wall -
Writing for children, you do bear a responsibility to not include overt or graphic adult content that they are not ready for and don't need, or to address adult concepts or themes from an oblique angle or a child's limited viewpoint, with appropriate context, without being graphic or distressing.
Garth Nix -
I and life: The case was settled chivalrously. The opponents parted without having made up.
Karl Kraus -
As goes California, so goes the rest of the nation.
Gavin Newsom
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History is laden with belligerent leaders using humanitarian rhetoric to mask geopolitical aims. History also shows how often ill-informed moralism has led to foreign entanglements that do more harm than good.
Samantha Power -
I'm in favour of religion as a tamer of arrogance. For a Greek Orthodox, the idea of God as creator outside the human is not God in God's terms. My God isn't the God of George Bush.
Nassim Nicholas Taleb -
As a kid I loved John McEnroe. They called me Mac because, while everyone else liked Borg, I was crazy about McEnroe. I tried wearing headbands and sweatbands, and whooping at people. It didn't quite work.
Sachin Tendulkar -
If a farmer fills his barn with grain, he gets mice. If he leaves it empty, he gets actors.
Walter Scott -
Power can shape 'truth,' but not forever.
Tariq Ali -
I always thought that was one of the single most important things a prosecutor could do is to seek justice for the families of victims.
Nancy Grace
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I'm a prolific overanalyzer. And I can always use 15 words in place of three 3, no matter what.
Maggie Grace -
All is extremely genteel; and there is almost as much repose as in the golden saloons of the contiguous palaces. At any rate, if there be as much vice, there is as little crime.
Isaac D'Israeli -
I'm not actually sure I'm grown-up enough for grown-up books.
Barbara Park -
It's the cushiest job, but some lines are so funny that I crack up.
Dan Castellaneta -
And frankly, I don't understand - I mean, I'm obviously a card-carrying Democrat - but I can't understand why any woman would want to vote for Mitt Romney, except maybe Mrs. Romney.
Madeleine Albright -
Truly great actors carry their characters in silence with them. They communicate without words the relationships that predate the movie.
Sam Mendes
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Designing a game can be like a Japanese garden. It's not what you put in but how much you take away.
Jenova Chen -
Yes. I do about 70 shows a year, in the past year I've been to Italy, Australia, Japan, China, just about everywhere. I do it because I love singing. The money is a bonus.
Katherine Jenkins -
When I get asked about novelists I like, they tend to be white, male, and British, like Graham Greene. They write the kind of declarative sentences I like. I don't like to be deflected by acrobatics.
Alan Furst -
Competence comes when successful outcomes are produced by values-driven, purposeful behaviors.
Aubrey Daniels -
Historically speaking, institutions are slow to change and usually resistant to any sudden moves - churches especially so.
Gene Robinson