William Barclay Quotes
It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.
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Some women think that if the look this season is minis, they have to wear minis. If you don't have great legs, there are plenty of alternatives.
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Now I'm back home, living in London, running my theater. I just want to enjoy all that.
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My desire to experiment comes from my attention-deficit approach to cosmetics. I just get really bored, really easily.
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Our economy creates and loses jobs every quarter in the millions. But of the net new jobs, the jobs come from small businesses: both small businesses on Main Street and many of the net new jobs come from high growth, high impact businesses that are located all across the country.
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Focus on the long term, and always do what's right to grow the company and not make short-term decisions. And outlast everyone one.
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Because I travel so much, I bring my workout clothes and shoes wherever I go. That way I can always do some exercise.
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Communism, like any other revealed religion, is largely made up of prophecies.
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Too often, we think that, when we have a problem with our lives or our country, that the way to fix it is to take an eye for an eye. That doesn't help anything or anyone.
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I have so many pairs of oxfords; it's ridiculous. It started because at my school you have to wear oxfords for our uniform, but after I got my first pair, I realized they were really comfortable, so they became my regular walking shoes, too.
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I've always said that I benefit, as an actor, from not having the illusion of security.
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I technically have two last names, which is a lot of fun when you're making airline reservations.
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I took religion much too seriously, however, and its overall effect was depressing. I would have really liked to discard it, but somehow I couldn't.
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The bad boy: always more fun.
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Music is my heart, but I see television and more movies in the next stage of my life.
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Well I think that, if you want to look at polarizing people right now, I wouldn't look at Palin, I'd look at Barack Obama.
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Being a pathfinder is to be willing to risk failure and still go on.
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I'm 100 percent sure I'm becoming a really good helicopter pilot.
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The word processor is a better tool than a quill pen because you can do so much more with it, but on the other hand, what you have to say and how you say it is the ultimate determination.
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The worst thing you can say about libertarians is that they are intellectually immature, frozen in the worldview many of them absorbed from reading Ayn Rand novels in high school. Like other ideologues, libertarians react to the world's failing to conform to their model by asking where the world went wrong.
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I am so not technically proficient at all.
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The present age has witnessed an extraordinary increase of a thinking public, by the facilities afforded to the diffusion of reading; the former happy resignation to ignorance begins to make way for a state of half-enlightenment, and few persons are willing to remain in the condition in which their birth has placed then.
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I think one country with nuclear weapons is one country too many.
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In my very first interview, at nine years old, I said I wanted to be an Olympic gold medalist. That was the first time I said it out loud in front of somebody other than my parents.
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It is fatally easy to think of Christianity as something to be discussed and not as something to be experienced.
