N.D. Wilson Quotes
What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first.
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Now that we have a true leader who stands for family and has a loving relationship with his wife, maybe black men and women will follow their example. We have a lot of faith and trust in President Obama because his integrity thus far has shown us a new level of manhood, fatherhood and husbandhood.
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Life consists in what a man is thinking of all day.
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Wild fish are under threat of extinction because they're hunted to feed us. Yet land animals that we farm are under no threat of extinction. Shifting from hunting fish to farming fish - where the farmers have the incentive to keep their stocks healthy - could do a tremendous amount of good for wild fish.
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Americans are more likely to watch a film in their own language. For the rest of the world, it doesn't matter so much.
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I just sing what I feel in my heart. I ain't trying to prove nothing, and I don't think I ever did.
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My primary influences were the best jazz players from the 50's and 60's and later some of the pop people from the same time period along with the better of the well known blues musicians.
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There's no more important bonding thing than a mother doing the daughter's hair. We sit at our mother's knee and learn who we are.
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The fox has many tricks. The hedgehog has but one. But that is the best of all.
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Only people who have been allowed to practise freedom can have the grown-up look in their eyes.
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The other thing about FEMA, my understanding is that it was supposed to move into the Department of Homeland Security... and be what it was, but also having a lot of lateral communication with all those others involved in that issue of homeland security.
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The first thing to improve society is not banning abortion, but making sure that everyone who had a child is in the best position to be able to rear it.
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Never interrupt your enemy when he is making a mistake.
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No man is ever whipped until he quits in his own mind.
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Education is neither eastern nor western.
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One of the real worries I had before the first season of 'Treme' aired was that, man, people in New Orleans really hold movie and television shows up to a high standard in how they depict the city.
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We won't stop until the first Saudi license is issued to a woman.
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On October 28th, 1887, I became the mother of a girl baby, the very image of its father, at least that is what he said, but who has the temper of its mother.
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Early Islam was a time of great creativity. Scholars excelled in sciences and literature.
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I got the idea that to write books would be the best way to spend a life. I never thought of anything else that seemed like half as much fun, although in my next life I would like to be an architect, too, so I can have an easier time restoring houses.
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I'm not really a popular fan of the whole Hall of Fame thing. I've had a lot of ups and downs, and I don't feel deserving a lot of times.
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I'm entitled to my political opinions, and I get to vote because I'm an American.
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On Monday and Thursday, I eat fewer than 500 calories a day; then I eat like a pig for the other five days. You 'surprise' the body: keep it guessing. I got the idea from a BBC documentary about this Indian man who seemed about 138 years old and said his secret was severe calorie restriction.
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You see people walking down the street with ear buds on and looking at this or whatever, talking to themselves. So there's more and more opportunity to never be where we actually are and just be.
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What I say is, don't go playing unless you can win. Only sit down to chess with idiots, only kick a dog what's dead already, and don't love a lady unless she loves you first.
