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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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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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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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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The name, Seventh-day Adventist, is a standing rebuke to the Protestant world. Here is the line of distinction between the worshipers of God, and those who worship the beast, and receive his mark. The great conflict is between the commandments of God and the requirements of the beast.
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If our music survives, which I have no doubt it will, then it will because it is good.
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I'm a multidimensional person and that's the freedom of fashion: that you're able to reinvent yourself through how you dress and how you cut your hair or whatever.
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The Republican Party is too fixated on this fiction of electability.
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The queers of the sixties, like those since, have connived with their repression under a veneer of respectability. Good mannered city queens in suits and pinstripes, so busy establishing themselves, were useless at changing anything.
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I have never spoken to Eminem. I've never even spoken to him once.
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Let me say I was trained at Juilliard. I have a very high standard. I expect everybody around me to work equally as hard because people pay a lot of money for tickets. They demand the best that we have.
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It is for real that injustice and oppression will not have the last word. There was a time when Hitler looked like he was going to vanquish all of Europe, and where is he now?
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When it comes to education, there is no one site you can point to that you can say, 'They speak to the world, and that is the site where you go to learn.'
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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.
