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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How does a project get to be a year behind schedule? One day at a time.
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Success is not a goal, it's a byproduct.
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Marriage is for women the commonest mode of livelihood, and the total amount of undesired sex endured by women is probably greater in marriage than in prostitution.
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To get high data transfer rates in communicating information, you would love to use optical fibers. The problem is that light is extremely hard to manipulate. So we make a perfect copy of the information carried by the light. We transfer it to matter - the condensate.
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A lot of people they don’t know that Africans even named the stars, that different peoples, different so-called native peoples, have their own names for the stars, and have star charts just as accurate as the Chinese star charts, which are more ancient than the European star charts or even the Arabic ones or the star charts of the New World civilizations. Everybody’s got their own cosmology. Everybody’s got their own description of the universe.
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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.
