A. N. Wilson Quotes
My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.
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Five to six thousand people die every year waiting for organs, but nobody cares.
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Africa has no future.
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For thousands of years, we did have death surrounding us, and we did have people die in the home. You would take care of your own end. You would do ritual processes, and you would be involved in it, and that's been taken away in the Western world.
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People are really talkative in New York. Someone always comes up to me and says 'Hi' during the day.
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Predictions are preposterous.
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Caring about policy is important - people in washington forget.
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Despite all odds we have emerged as one people and one country.
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My friends seem much more excited about my doing Anastasia than Brainstorm... and to tell you the truth, I feel the same way.
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I came to Hollywood determined to follow in Jean Harlow's footsteps, but I was determined not to die young. My hope was to endure. And endure I have.
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I made a big family when I was working at 'Vogue' for ten years, and I'm still friends with a lot of them.
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My music is a little dark, and my lyrics are a little darker. Every day, I'm fighting towards the light.
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I didn't grow up around all white people; I never wanted to gentrify hip-hop, I've never wanted to speak to an all-white audience.
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Voting to go on strike is not a decision working people take lightly and is always accompanied by a strong sense of injustice at work. The impact of losing a day's pay is significant, not least for those in the lowest paid jobs who are already on the tightest budgets.
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I have enjoyed every call. The ones involving direct contact with people have been most rewarding.
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There's stuff I don't like to rehearse, really emotional things, I don't like to rehearse. You just beat it to death.
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There is almost nothing more painful for a leader than seeing good people leave a growing organization, whether it's a priest watching a Sunday school teacher walk out the door or a CEO saying goodbye to a co-founder.
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People aren't inherently sympathetic.
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What has impressed me the most about the Italians whose tables we've sat at is that they are traditional cooks but also outrageously innovative. These people are wild improvisers.
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You talk to the real cops and they say ninety percent of it is paperwork.
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When a nation goes down, or a society perishes, one condition may always be found; they forgot where they came from. They lost sight of what had brought them along.
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Most people hear me do all these freestyles and never hear me tell a story.
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You want to do your job well so that people in the future say, 'OK, he's not bad, let's hire him.'
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The two inaugurations were different. The first inauguration I was thinking to myself, "Let's make sure I don't screw this up." I think there is - people always talk about how cool I am. I don't care how cool you are.
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My belief has come about in large measure because of the lives and examples of people I have known - not the famous, not saints, but friends and relations who have lived, and faced death, in the light of the Resurrection story, or in the quiet acceptance that they have a future after they die.
