Stanley Hauerwas Quotes
Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.
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I grew up watching Super J-Cup tournaments and things like that, and those were pretty cool.
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This identity, this mind, this particular cast of speech, is nearly over.
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When I was in school, there was no such thing as girls' athletics.
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I'm here today because I hated everything else.
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Game-playing is more fun when it's virtual because you're more successful. ... in reality, only one person gets to be LeBron.
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You cannot tailor-make the situations in life but you can tailor-make the attitudes to fit those situations.
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I grew up in an era of pretty severe poverty. My parents weathered the Great Depression, and money was always a very big concern. I was weaned on a shortage mentality and placed in foster homes largely because there simply wasn't enough money to take care of the most basic of needs.
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Music is God's gift to man, the only art of Heaven given to earth, the only art of earth we take to Heaven.
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Toronto was a great place to work, a fun place to work. People were so hockey-oriented, hockey-minded, without being too critical. In Montreal, they got downright nasty sometimes.
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My husband is a brilliant cook - enthusiastic and good - but he has not mastered the clearing up as you go along.
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Equipped with two cell phones - one for work and another for home - I like to think of myself as a kind of 21st-century digital pioneer, ready to network, fax, page, e-mail and - oh, yes - talk at will.
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When you develop a reputation for being responsive and generous, an ever-expanding mountain of requests will come your way.
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I think the secret is really observation. Well, if you observe what's going on and try to figure out how people are thinking, I think you can always write something that people will understand.
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The uplands of my home country in north central Kentucky are sloping and easily eroded, dependent for safekeeping upon year-round cover of perennial plants.
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Losing my daughter was a very serious pain. There was always some empty space in my heart.
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You just can't afford to care that much about the negative things people say about you. You just can't!
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You don't have to wait-you can have it in 5.004_54 or so.
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I have ever been the queerest mixture of weakness and strength, and have paid heavily for the weakness.
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We were high above fields, and there far, far below, was a small shadow as of a great bird tearing along the neatly marked off fields. It gave me the most tremendous shock to realize for the first time the terrific speed we were going at and that that shadow meant us - us, like a mirror! That 'bird' - it was us.
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I think that one of the most exciting things about making films is the sort of reaching out to the world. It's as an ambassador. You realize the more you travel that you are a cultural ambassador for your own country. You never become more patriotic than you do living abroad.
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I went through college while working a full-time manual-labor job, and I don't regret a minute of it; it was a great learning experience.
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Whenever a people are bound together in loyalty to a story that includes something as strange as the Sermon on the Mount, we are put at odds with the world.
