Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes
It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.
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The whole of our national sport is not doing very well.
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And it was then that I realized wow, I'm able to write lyrics and sing and stuff like that.
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You don't go out and change your gender for a television show, O.K.? It ain't happening. I don't care who you are.
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I always feel the danger because you might always be subject to an unexpected or emergency event.
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At 10, I heard Neil Diamond's 'Solitary Man' and it moved me so deeply I stood, frozen in place during school recess, feeling such empathy for the narrator in Diamond's masterpiece that my heart was smashed.
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If the reporter has killed our imagination with his truth, he threatens our life with his lies.
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I kind of crave loneliness.
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When I watch Rumble Johnson, he's a bully. He bullies guys. He makes them go backward, and he traps them. I'm not going to allow that. If he tries to bully me, I'll stand right in front of him, and if he hits me, I'll hit him right back. And then we'll see how the bully handles it when nobody is going to run away from him.
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The last thing you want to do when you are about to film a scene is think, 'Oh my God, so many people are going to watch this.'
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Hope is a great falsifier. Let good judgment keep her in check.
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A play should give you something to think about. When I see a play and understand it the first time, then I know it can't be much good.
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When you make a movie, it's up to so many things and so many people.
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When you go to jail, there's so much simple stuff missing. You just want some good toilet paper or a real toothbrush, a real blanket and a real bed to lay in.
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It is a great matter to be in authority over others; for authority, if it be rightly used, will make you feared beyond your actual resources.
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Movement of people is taking place on an immense scale, and from a European perspective, the number of potential future immigrants seems limitless.
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For all the power of video and film, I am not giving up my pen. I am just much more likely to try to link essays to webcasts or videos. The best way for these two media to move forward, to inform and make change, is in tandem; together they are more than the sum of their parts.
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In cartoons and in improv, anything can happen. You can be any character you want. The rules of real life don't always apply.
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Acting is an uncomfortable business because you have to make yourself vulnerable.
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To be idle is a short road to death and to be diligent is a way of life; foolish people are idle, wise people are diligent.
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All the bands get along really well. That's one of the biggest things on a tour. It's great to get all these cool bands together, but if they don't get along it sucks.
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We can ask ourselves daily what we have done to make the world a better place, to make someone smile, to help someone to feel more secure, etc. It's the simple things which have the greatest effect. We must never underestimate the strength of a smile or act of kindness.
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It is impossible to deny that Christians and Muslims have a common agenda here: both faiths have at their heart the living image of a community raised up by God's call to reveal to the world what God's purpose is for humanity.
