Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes
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The library world is set up on this model where the library is a physical building and has a number of books and serves a geographical community.
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The eyes of a poet discover in each person a unique and irreplaceable humanity. While arrogant intellect seeks to control and manipulate the world, the poetic spirit bows with reverence before its mysteries.
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I've had a lot of seedy side jobs. I've done it all. I've worked retail at the mall, just tons of side jobs, which I think are amazing for actors. I think everyone should have one! It helps you get more experiences, and the more experiences you have, the more you can channel into a character.
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If God had sufficient wisdom and power to construct such a beautiful world as this, then we must admit that his wisdom and power are immeasurably greater than that of man, and hence he is qualified to reign as king.
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I have always appreciated those who dare to experiment with materials and proportions.
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Mathematical science shows what is. It is the language of unseen relations between things. But to use and apply that language, we must be able fully to appreciate, to feel, to seize the unseen, the unconscious.
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I'm particularly drawn to actors in their own little drama. I find it's that area I'm very alive to. And I don't encounter it that often. You have to be far from civilization, you have to be far from New York or London to find people who do that.
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Here I am paying big money to you writers and what for? All you do is change the words.
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I am not helpless. Any timid minister will not go forward... I have come here to strive hard for the sake of the country, to work for the country. If anybody thinks that decision making process in the oil sector will be prevented, they are totally wrong.
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Once I know people know who I am, it gives me a lot of licence and freedom to behave in ways I wouldn't normally.
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May God our Lord never let me harm anyone when I cannot help him!
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Praxagora: Woman is adept at getting money for herself and will not easily let herself be deceived; she understands deceit too well herself. (tr. O'Neill 1938, Perseus)
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I'm pretty critical of myself as far as reaching some sort of perfect bull's-eye or target that I'm aiming for.
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We're not just writers; we're readers probably more than anything else. That's how you learn how to write and how you learn to appreciate good writing: by reading.
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The main long-run contribution monetary policy can make is to provide a stable macroeconomic and financial environment.
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Sometimes you're working with somebody, and you can tell they're just waiting to say their line.
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A loving heart is an inventive one.
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My dad, when he was young, did Shakespeare in school, and my mom was a little bit of an artist, but everybody was pragmatic.
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It so happened that Lucy, who found daily life rather chaotic, entered a more solid world when she opened the piano. She was then no longer either deferential or patronizing; no longer either a rebel or a slave.
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My family was a Christian family. But I had to get to Kansas to play the blues.
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My background is that I came from a middle class family, and I think those values stay where ever you go.
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Towards the end of the eighteenth century the industrial-financial revolution began.
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The history of a people are found in its songs.
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I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.
