Rowan Williams (Rowan Douglas Williams) Quotes
To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.
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In the beginning, I didn't dance that much and stuff.
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The Bible is very clear about one thing: Using politics to create fairness is a sin.
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Even with my wife, I find sharing soup is hard.
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State assaults on the separation of church and state are nothing new.
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I've always been an underdog. I feel like I beat the odds.
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I did every job under the sun from bartending to ushering to temping.
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If you learn one thing from having lived through decades of changing views, it is that all predictions are necessarily false.
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Learning about factory farms and their horrendous treatment of animals is what made me become vegetarian in the first place. I also support the education of the public on adopting pets from animal shelters or saving homeless animals off the street in lieu of buying them from pet shops.
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I had no work after 'Gangster' for two years, and my sister Rangoli met with an accident that destroyed her looks. My struggle with my parents combined with the industry not accepting me made me feel alienated.
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She discovered with great delight that one does not love one's children just because they are one's children but because of the friendship formed while raising them.
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A good leader has to at some point trust those around him; otherwise, nothing constructive is going to get done.
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Read, read, read, read and then read some more.
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My father was not comfortable working with very articulate people. He and Willie Wyler got along because neither of them was very articulate.
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The theory that Divine Providence does not extend to man, and that there is no difference between man and other animals, implies very bad notions about God; it disturbs all social order, removes and destroys all the moral and intellectual virtues of man.
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If you thought about it I'm hardly the villain, I'm hardly the one you should be scared of. It's the guy who can't talk, it's the guy without a job, it's the one with scares in his face, not the one clean cut, you know what I mean you should worry about a lot of other things, but not me.
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We thought we'd be really big in Liverpool.
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You're just mad 'cause I got my dick sucked, and my balls licked.
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Even people that are close to me or people that are acquaintances... The only question I get now is, 'How is music going?' It's an overpowering quality of my life now, the fact that I write songs. It's weird to navigate what that means socially.
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My father would take me to the playground, and put me on mood swings.
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And I want to be able to - you know, make Republicans and Democrats famous for keeping jobs in California.
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After reading Graham Greene and Joseph Conrad when I was a student at Yale, I wanted to live in the world they captured in their books. I had had some experience living in Africa. I was drawn to that kind of adventure.
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I began to fear that I was forever going to be living in a hot desert cage, living as and being treated as a male, disappearing from the world into a secret prison, and never facing a public trial.
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To be a Christian is to believe we are commanded and authorised to say certain things to the world; to say things that will make disciples of all nations.
