Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes
Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.
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As the mother of two daughters, I have great respect for women. And I don't ever want to lose that.
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When I was right out of college, I felt competitive with some of the guys in my class over career stuff.
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Half of my closet is Barbie clothes - PVC skirts, cropped fuzzy sweaters, and velvet minis.
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Confidence is key. Sometimes, you need to look like you're confident even when you're not.
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I like to get up around 5:30 or six - that's my favorite time of day. My family is still asleep, and the office is still closed, so I can start my day slowly.
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Everybody eats a little differently, but the more where you are aware of what you put in your body and how it affects your performance, the better opportunities you have. And that's what I'm trying to do.
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Growing up, I think I always had a sense of art: a sense that there was poetry in the world. I didn't know where I was going to find it. I didn't know where I was going to fit in, that was for sure. But I kept moving forward. There wasn't a future in anything other than movement.
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I want to be a major force.
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In life, you need many more things besides talent. Things like good advice and common sense.
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There is a sufficiency in the world for man's need but not for man's greed.
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My only personal time is a couple of hours in the gym in the morning.
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To retain respect for sausages and laws, one must not watch them in the making.
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To fight against the infidels is Jihad; but to fight against your evil self is greater Jihad.
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I am famous because I am an African American jazz artist.
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Many a man curses the rain that falls upon his head, and knows not that it brings abundance to drive away the hunger.
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So what happens when the regime falls, as it must? We are in the first stage of change in our country, and the feeling among the revolutionaries is that the people of Yemen will find solutions for our problems once the regime has gone, because the regime itself is the cause of most of them. A new Yemen awaits us, with a better future for all.
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Ah, Love! could you and I with Him conspire To grasp this sorry Scheme of Things entire, Would not we shatter it to bits - and then Re-mould it nearer to the Heart's Desire!
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Policies that assume that human nature is a tabula rasa (clean slate) should be reviewed and revised to reflect that man has an in-built genetic code for survival with no evidence for innate morality.
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The reality of life in Northern Ireland is that if you were Protestant, you learned British history, and if you were Catholic, you learned Irish history in school.
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The difference was you worked for Nixon, and with Ford.
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Whenever I dwell for any length of time on my own shortcomings, they gradually begin to seem mild, harmless, rather engaging little things, not at all like the staring defects in other people's characters.
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I grew up looking to all those Jewish athletes for inspiration.
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I think a lot of people are aware of the things I do, but maybe because of who I am, they don't want to report the good things about Albert Belle.
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Institutions develop because people put a lot of trust in them, they meet real needs, they represent important aspirations, whether it's monasteries, media, or banks, people begin by trusting these institutions, and gradually the suspicion develops that actually they're working for themselves, not for the community.
