Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes
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Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.
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One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.
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The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.
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It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.
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My great inspiration has always been Studs Terkel, who is a wonderful American oral historian. He was a radio DJ at first, interviewed a lot of jazz musicians, and at some point started to interview Americans about work.
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When I announced the development of Perl 6, I said it was going to be a community design. I designed Perl, myself. It's limited by my own brain power. So I wanted Perl 6 to be a community design.
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Sometimes some of these little side excursions are useful and I manage to fit them in the book somewhere.
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Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.
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Our aim is to establish El Cartel as not just another tequila but part of the club and party lifestyle. There are several songs where I mention the brand name, and a lot of these party songs go hand in hand with the concept of Cartel Tequila.
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I adore 'The Chipmunks.'
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I had given myself a sort of early retirement when I left the scene in 1985. All of the people in my family worked until they dropped, including my father. I decided to take a little time to enjoy life. I traveled, built my dream house, rescued a few dogs. My return to music, and acting, was deliberate, part of my musical arc.
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'The Last Of Us,' to me, is just amazing storytelling, because everything's from the character point of view, which even movies don't really do successfully a lot of the time.
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Tiananmen Square in early 1989 attracted many dreamers like Ma Jian, who returned from Hong Kong to a one-room shack in Beijing in order to join the student protests.
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The system of domination is founded on depriving nations of their true identity. It seeks to deprive nations of their culture, identity, self-confidence and in this way dominate them.
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I knew from an early age exactly what I wanted to do. I wanted to be a musician and that was it. It made life a lot easier knowing what I was aiming for.
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I'm just trying to blur this very clear line we've drawn and are drawing over and over and over again between communities. Saying those are queer films and those are films. I would love for that line to disappear. For that frontier to be abolished once and for all.
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And I think that that’s one of the best things you can give somebody – the chance to show them what it feels like to make other people get excited and happy.
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Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.
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The superior man blames himself. The inferior man blames others.
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Don't count your boobies until they are hatched.
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I am more excited about 'Divinity of Doubt: The God Question' than any other book in my entire career, and I've had seven New York Times bestsellers, three of them reaching number one.
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Besides great climates and lovely beaches, California and Greece share a fondness for dysfunctional politics and feckless budgeting.
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The cardones cactus is very similar to saguaro cactus in Arizona. These cacti only grow in very specific, particular places.
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It's a moral question.
