Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes
In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.
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I hope that on my tombstone it says 'Born 1933, died 2043.' I hope that's my legacy.
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I was initially a leading man, but only on television.
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When you are in trouble, people who call to sympathize are really looking for the particulars.
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When I was about five or seven years old my mother was placed in a mental institution and so we were with our father who worked very hard, and we had to figure a lot of things out.
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I always sang after every dinner or when we had people over or when we had a show in school. I just loved to be on stage and sing in front of people.
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When I was 20, I thought anyone in the music business over 25 is past it. Then at 30, you think anyone still doing it at 35 is ridiculous. Suddenly, you find yourself at 48 and still doing it, so I don't know what to say, really.
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Within Internet users, you have a big chunk of people who can convert to online shopping.
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I don't believe I could work as effectively at what I do without the support of my wife.
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Never dress down for the poor. They won't respect you for it. They want their First Lady to look like a million dollars.
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I think a girl looks good when she wakes up with nothing on her face.
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Man will never be enslaved by machinery if the man tending the machine be paid enough.
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There is no horizon in Toledo. There are too many trees.
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You have to remember that when you are a performer you become a celebrity, but you are not saving lives. It's not that important.
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’Oh, yes, he thinks a lot of you. I remember his very words. 'Mr Wooster, miss' he said 'is, perhaps, mentally somewhat negligible but he has a heart of gold’
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May I borrow your wheelbarrow?— I didn't lay down my life in World War IIso that you could borrow my wheelbarrow
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Justice requires us to remember that when any citizen denies his fellow, saying, 'His color is not mine,' or 'His beliefs are strange and different,' in that moment he betrays America, though his forebears created this Nation.
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Never stop learning; knowledge doubles every fourteen months.
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What is not OK is for rent-seekers to get rich.
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I can feel middle age approaching, but I reckon the trick is to ignore all the signs. I'm lucky in that I've always looked half the age I am. So the way I see it is that I'm still in my twenties!
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My father was very disappointed by war and fighting. And he thought language could help us out of cycles of revenge and animosity. And so, as a journalist, he always found himself asking lots of questions and trying to gather information. He was always very clear to underscore the fact that Jewish people and Arab people were brother and sister.
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I am convinced that if we are to get on the right side of the world revolution, we as a nation must undergo a radical revolution of values. We must rapidly begin the shift from a "thing-oriented" society to a "person-oriented" society.
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In spite of the haze of speculation, it is still something of a shock to find myself here, coming to terms with an enormous trust placed in my hands and with the inevitable sense of inadequacy that goes with that.
