Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes

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• Healthy is in the eye of the beholder.

  

  Yotam Ottolenghi
  • Eye
  • Healthy
  • Beholder

• One does a whole painting for one peach and people think just the opposite - that particular peach is but a detail.

  

  Pablo Picasso
  • People
  • Think
  • Painting

• The Schindler Jews were off-limits in Brunnlitz.

  

  Oskar Schindler
  • Jews
  • Were

• It's become a habit to make films where the father is absent. My father impresses me, but the father figure does not.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Father
  • Me
  • Habit

• 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.

  

  Hans-Ulrich Obrist
  • Work
  • Inspiration
  • Musicians

• 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.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Power
  • Community
  • Myself

• Books teach children to see the world through the eyes of others and empathise with others. It's about the story.

  

  Malorie Blackman
  • World
  • Children
  • Eyes

• 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.

  

  Daddy Yankee
  • Party
  • Hand
  • Name

• I adore 'The Chipmunks.'

  

  Kabir Bedi
  • Adore

• 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.

  

  J. D. Souther
  • People
  • Life
  • Time

• '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.

  

  Felicia Day
  • Time
  • Character
  • Amazing

• 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.

  

  Pankaj Mishra
  • Like
  • Dreamers
  • Hong Kong

• 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.

  

  Mahmoud Ahmadinejad
  • True
  • Culture
  • Confidence

• 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.

  

  Dan Hawkins
  • Life
  • Age
  • Early

• 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.

  

  Xavier Dolan
  • Trying
  • Love
  • Drawing

• 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.

  

  Randy Pausch
  • People
  • Happy

• Perl has a long tradition of working around compilers.

  

  Larry Wall
  • Long

• Responsibilities gravitate to the person who can shoulder them.

  

  Elbert Hubbard

• I like more of the club mentality, where we're playing, and if we feel like we want to play a cover, we'll switch to that.

  

  Chris Stapleton

• Young men and young women, full of courage, originality, and genius, are everywhere to be met with.

  

  Frank Crowninshield
  • Men
  • Women
  • Courage

• The big shock of my life was Abstract Expressionism - Pollock, de Kooning, those guys. It changed my work. I was an academically trained student, and suddenly you could pour paint, smear it on, broom it on!

  

  LeRoy Neiman
  • Life
  • Work

• I don't hide my being Israeli. I say it in every interview. I put out a record with songs in Hebrew. The people who signed me have no connection to Judaism or Israel.

  

  Yael Naim
  • People
  • Connection
  • Hide

• You have to make a lot of sacrifices, and the main thing you have to sacrifice is your privacy. It's funny because when I was growing up, my daddy was and still is an insurance agent in our home town. He couldn't go anywhere without somebody recognizing him or needing something from him.

  

  Josh Turner
  • Up
  • Home
  • Growing

• It's a moral question.

  

  Rowan Williams
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