N.D. Wilson Quotes
Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.
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Always render more and better service than is expected of you, no matter what your task may be.
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When history looks back, it will prove what I'll die knowing.
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The idea would be in my mind - and I know it sounds strange - is that the most important advances in medicine would be made not by new knowledge in molecular biology, because that's exceeding what we can even use. It'll be made by mathematicians, physicists, computer scientists, figuring out a way to get all that information together.
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The reason I want to show shocking things is that they always pose an ethical question.
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I was a commercial girl. In drama school, I was a mediocre model occasionally to pick up some extra cash, and because clearly I'm not six feet tall, and I had baby weight, I would mainly just would do promotional stuff.
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All of my main characters have been under 30.
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I think it's fascinating to look at a world that an author has created that has sort of stemmed from the world now, and usually dystopian books point out something about our current world and exaggerates a tendency or a belief.
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Children like being a little scared, but they don't want to be disturbed.
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You could cover the whole earth with asphalt, but sooner or later green grass would break through.
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The real political life in Russia unfortunately is not in the parliament but on the streets and in the media.
Garry Kasparov -
Both my wife and I went to Harvard, and it's incredibly exciting that our son and daughter are going there and have the chance to experience it. There are many awesome opportunities at Harvard. That's one of its greatest frustrations - not having enough time to take the classes you want to take.
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The verdict of the world is conclusive.
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It's more important to try to do something for the crores of poor people of my country.
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I'm not even kind of a lesbian.
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Two half philosophers will probably never a whole metaphysician make.
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Crony capitalism is alive and well: the big are bigger, the wealthy are getting wealthier because, with a very large powerful complicated government, which is what we have and which Democrats want more of, only the big, the powerful, the wealthy and the well connected can survive.
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I am a fiscal conservative.
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I'm not going to change my game because I got hurt.
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My money slow, my money stupid, money ditzy
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I'm a little vague on the details but aren't doughnuts just the most marvellous thing to ever come out of organised religion?
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You should watch what you say to people.
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For us democracy is a question of human dignity. And human dignity is political freedom.
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Every general increase of freedom is accompanied by some degeneracy, attributable to the same causes as the freedom.
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Do you dislike your role in the story, your place in the shadow? What complaints do you have that the hobbits could not have heaved at Tolkien? You have been born into a narrative, you have been given freedom. Act, and act well until you reach your final scene.
