Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes
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One of the most important tools we have at the Small Business Administration (SBA) to reach high growth entrepreneurs is the Small Business Investment Company (SBIC) program.
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I come from a generation that suffered school lessons in portacabins and crumbling hospitals. I tell you one thing, for the eighteen years they were in power the Tories did nothing to fix the roof when the sun was shining.
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The first job I ever had was singing in a jazz club when I was like 15 with my friend, and we earned like 70 bucks. We were like, 'Oh my God!'
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Russia is still the leader in world space exploration. But its position of leader involves great responsibility - we have no right to lag behind. We can and we must move constantly forward.
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I have a lot of friends and fans in Canada and as a matter of fact I met a fan from there that came down to my office. It was nice and we took pictures and had a nice talk.
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The Soviet Union was a very useful ally in the defeat of Nazi Germany.
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Blessedness consists in the accomplishment of our desires, and in our having only regular desires.
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I can't stop people from writing imaginative stories about me entering politics.
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Ignorance is not bliss, but in my case, that was.
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Music was definitely a way out. Instead of playing basketball, I was going to recording studios.
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If we lose sight of the fact that writing is entertainment, then writing is doomed.
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I knew I had to write a good screenplay to be taken seriously, and I knew I needed to present Mississippi on visuals instead of just saying, 'Hey I wanted to film it in Mississippi.' It would seem like it was a hometown boy just wanting to be home.
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I'd love to work with Michael Buble, with Tony Bennett, with Damian Marley, with Andrea Bocelli.
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This ain't fun. But you watch me, I'll get it done.
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The distinctive feature of my family was intolerance of sensitivity and emotion - 'Everything's great, it all has to be great all the time and why do you have to spoil it?' Whereas probably the most fundamental and important thing to me has been defending my right to tell the truth about how I feel.
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I'm a very independent woman.
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Very wonderful books might be published, and very terrible books might be published.
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Theater and poetry were what helped people stay alive and want to go on living.
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I believed in myself, and I've always worked very, very hard as an artist, and I am an artist in every sense of the word.
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'They wouldn't fire me. Even the salesmen liked me. They were robbing the boss out the back door but I didn't say anything. That was their little game. It didn't interest me. I wasn't much of a petty thief. I wanted the whole world or nothing.'
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No psychic value can disappear without being replaced by another of equivalent intensity.
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'I like to see an angry Englishman,' said Poirot. 'They are very amusing. The more emotional they feel the less command they have of language.'
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Casting directors tend to be the unsung heroes in this business.
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The Church exists to connect people at the level of their hunger for a new world.
