A. N. Wilson Quotes
I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
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I think there's something very dark in the South African psyche. I think we live a lot of the time in a state of a very low-grade civil war; the levels of violence in South Africa are extremely high. In a way, the civil war that never happened is being played out in a covert way, so we live with a lot of very ugly things.
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The fact that we live in a world where black people have to strategize so they're not brutalized by police is insane.
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A couple of times, I felt like I was cracking and I couldn't go on, and God would put another person in my place to help me.
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If there is something I am arguing, it is a critique of science. Science has consistently denied the existence of consciousness other than human. Only in the last 20 years do we have acknowledgement of animal feeling or culture or experience.
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I do not suppose I shall be remembered for anything. But I don't think about my work in those terms. It is just as vulgar to work for the sake of posterity as to work for the sake of money.
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Evolutionary psychology tells us that men, especially powerful men, feel invincible and entitled to spread their seed, and that women can't resist the scent of masculine power. Women, by contrast, are said to be more altruistic and collaborative, seeking power so that they can share it with others.
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What is Norah Jones' style? Is it just the albums that we've heard? She has a rock group where she plays guitar in, downtown in New York, so do we really know her style?
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I haven't directed a film since 'Appaloosa,' and I've been looking for something because I love the directing thing.
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I just sing the songs that people don't expect you to sing, because I just love having fun at karaoke and I'm always a bit nervous to sing something serious.
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There never was a time when, in my opinion, some way could not be found to prevent the drawing of the sword.
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I've been doing stand-up since I was 15 years old.
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I don't know that on-demand sports is remarkably better than live sports.
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It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.
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When the whole world is silent, even one voice becomes powerful.
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Lets be clear, Dolly Parton is a rapper. Somewhere before all the country, I don't know what happens up there in the mountains when you're growing up, but she has been spitting rhymes for a very long time - 50 years I'd say.
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Anything that's made by humans is about humans, whether it's about gods or aliens or anything; it's about some sort of expressive nature about us.
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I want to be able, as days go by, always to look myself straight in the eye.
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I'll say things that are serious and put them in a joke form so people can enjoy them. We laugh to keep from crying.
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I was an English-literature major, and that's all about stories and narratives.
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Only the other world has substance and reality; only good deeds and holy learning have tangible worth.
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If you speak to anyone who's ever done time, the fact that you make it out of there alive is a miracle.
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The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation.
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Whether we love, or close our hearts to love, is a mental choice we make, every moment of every day.
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I do not find it easy to articulate thoughts about religion. I remain the sort of person who turns off 'Thought for the Day' when it comes on the radio.
