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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All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
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A good hair day is when my curls are popping. Sometimes my curls and waves, they like to go a little wild sometimes. They have a mind of their own. But some days, they just fall right into place.
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I have a lot of respect for my birth mother I know she must have had a lot of love for me to want to give what she felt was a better chance.
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We live in a stage of politics, where legislators seem to regard the passage of laws as much more important than the results of their enforcement.
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It's a really interesting and diverse business. You're a farmer first, then a winemaker, then you're onto marketing and distribution. So it's multi-faceted and really engaging. I've learned more in the last couple years than in the ten prior to that, so it's been pretty interesting.
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I think there is a great deal of interest still in the Christian faith.
