Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes
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I can't wait to get on stage, because there you don't worry about whether you'll ever get married because your life is insane, or whether you'll ever have another boyfriend again, you don't worry about the typical boundaries of how your life has to be.
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We were only allowed to watch Sesame Street and Mr. Rogers and 3-2-1 Contact!
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It doesn't matter if you look different. You're still the same as everybody else because you have the same dream.
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Our brains are very animal but also very strange and egotistical. We're narcissistic.
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I'll never be immune to criticism, and that's okay, and I'm very comfortable with that.
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Teaching is a good distraction, and I am in contact with young people, which is very gratifying.
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I have three things I really, really want to do. I want to do aerial trapeze, I want to do martial arts, and I want to learn Russian. And, because of my life, I'm not able to do any of these.
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The best shows succeed because they tap into a national conversation.
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I don't think I'm proud of anything in acting.
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It is not just for a few states to sit and veto global approvals.
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All my concerts had no sounds in them; they were completely silent. People had to make up their own music in their minds!
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Just having the internet is a weird and dangerous thing because people become accustomed to knowing things when they want to know them and not having to work for it. I definitely see the value in not knowing everything and having mystery in life and mystery in people.
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Good style - regardless of fads - means the thing that suits your body.
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We were trailing at the three mile point. The guys picked it up in the last two miles and we were able to pull it off.
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You run a grave risk, my boy," said the magician, "of being turned into a piece of bread, and toasted.
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In college, I was a fiercely committed Democrat - a meeting with Jack Kemp, then Secretary of the Department of Housing and Urban Development, challenged my blind partisanship.
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I don't like to try strange foods. I like to explore different foods, but if you ask me to eat crocodile or frogs... I'm like no. That's where I draw the line.
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Two things in life are infinite; the stupidity of man and the mercy of God.
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A bibliophile of little means is likely to suffer often. Books don't slip from his hands but fly past him through the air, high as birds, high as prices.
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I've got a transcendental way of thinking about things. I've got a galactic self.
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You don't want to get stuck with a record that you've done with someone that you feel obligated to put out - that's not really dope, just because you made an effort to get together and work.
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I would like to say that it is not important what you have, but how you enjoy it.
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We shall not find life by refusing to let go of our precious, protected selves.
