Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes
Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
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I have to be seen to be believed.
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For women who turn to welfare, Big Brother becomes Husband.
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When I run in Ethiopia, I look out and see eucalyptus trees and rivers.
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Struggles make you stronger and the changes make you wiser and happiness has its own way of taking its sweet time. Life isn't always lovely, but it's a beautiful ride.
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If we understood what happens when we use the Word of God, we would use it oftener.
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As you go through life, there are thousands of little forks in the road, and there are a few really big forks-those moments of reckoning, moments of truth.
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You’re just the romantic age,” she continued- “fifty. Twenty-five is too worldly wise; thirty is apt to be pale from overwork; forty is the age of long stories that take a whole cigar to tell; sixty is- oh, sixty is too near seventy; but fifty is the mellow age. I love fifty.” - Hildegarde
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The mandate given to me was one of change.
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I'd been performing in bands since I was 12 which represented, at that point, about 16 years of playing music.
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With what you were talking about before. The world being broken. Maybe it isn't that we're supposed to find the pieces and put them back together. Maybe we're the pieces." Nick says. "Maybe," Nick says, "what we're supposed to do is come together. That's how we stop the breaking.
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Nothing is an accident: it's always someone's fault; perhaps-but no one teaches us how to live with our mistakes. Everyone is isolated, alone with his or her anguish and guilt, and too penetrating a question can mean people are not able to face one another the next day.
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The only thing more dangerous than ignorance is arrogance.
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A lot of filmmakers and actors say, "It's so important to bring an authenticity to the role," blah, blah, blah. But then it's interesting because you're also trying to be somebody else, and viewers are going to associate you with that, so I don't think it really has an answer.
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The smartest thing a director can do is surround himself with really good people.
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How can you be on top of the things you do? I think when you are involved in a business, first of all you need to know the business. After that you know the business, you can - the numbers tell you what is happening. You can read with the numbers.
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No one can make you feel inferior without your consent.
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Persecution, in short, is like the goldsmith's stamp on real silver and gold - it is one of the marks of a converted man.
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Actual human discourse happens within a number of contexts, not in some sort of unified public forum.
