A. N. Wilson Quotes
Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
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No man ever quite believes in any other man. One may believe in an idea absolutely, but not in a man.
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Science fiction has these obsessions with certain sciences - large scale engineering, neuroscience.
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Why should I give you an interview? All you journalists are plagiarists.
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Prison makes an interesting context for so many different characters to come together. You get to see what lines get drawn between people.
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We think of feminism as an academic subject, but it's not. If you think feminism is academic, you think there's a right or wrong.
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I was an expert horseman.
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The best way to remember your wife's birthday is to forget it once.
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I grew up in St. Louis in a tiny house full of large music - Mahalia Jackson and Marian Anderson singing majestically on the stereo, my German-American mother fingering 'The Lost Chord' on the piano as golden light sank through trees, my Palestinian father trilling in Arabic in the shower each dawn.
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We must assert to the Abrahamic people that we are the last extension of the Abrahamic religion... There is no such thing as an Islamic tribe.
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It's like you have a child and you think, 'Everything that I've done up until this point is insignificant in comparison to being a father.' It's a beautiful, beautiful thing.
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By our form of government, the Christian religion is the established religion; and all sects and denominations of Christians are placed upon the same equal footing, and are equally entitled to protection in their religious liberty.
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I have a problem with people saying feminine means anti-feminist, and I think it's counter-productive to immediately associate anything 'girly' with vanity or stupidity.
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Flag desecration is not a constitutional issue for the courts. It is a political one that belongs to the people.
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I have three brothers, and they'd torture me if I ever told them I liked a boy.
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To appreciate present conditions, collate them with those of antiquity.
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Instead of passing on choppy waters to the next generation, we should endeavor to leave them a calmer sea.
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My first Broadway show wasn't until I was a freshman in high school. It was my first trip to New York. I came with a group of theatre kids, and we saw four shows. The very first one was 'Contact.'
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One person goes off and works in Houston the other person goes off to London and you're on the phone to each other and somebody is paying you to kiss somebody else. It's very bizarre being an actor.
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As I got older, I got more Victorian and morbid. I got into things that circled around death, like skulls or morgue photographs or handwritten diaries. They can be almost haunted with all this history, and you project onto it and then it gets onto you.
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The way we deny death says something about how we live our lives, doesn't it? At least in Sweden or Scandinavia, you don't have to search further back in time than maybe three generations to find another way to relate to death. People then had a different, closer relationship with death; at least it was like that in the countryside.
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Life is uncertain; death is certain.
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All winning teams are goal-oriented. Teams like these win consistently because everyone connected with them concentrates on specific objectives. They go about their business with blinders on; nothing will distract them from achieving their aims.
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Fear of death has never played a large part in my consciousness – perhaps unimaginative of me.
