Abdullah ibn Mubarak Quotes
We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.
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'Envy' was a bit of a challenge for me. It was smooth.
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Food production has affected the environment more than any other activity humans have engaged in. Humanity devotes more land to food production than anything else - roughly a third of the surface area of the earth, much of which was once forest but has been converted by humans into farms or grazing lands.
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As a free-speech advocate, I believe that adults should have access to any material they want. As a parent, and a community member, I think people should be able to protect their homes from imagery - much of it violent - that is, I feel, a form of child abuse when adult society inflicts it upon children.
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For me, 'Moby-Dick' is more than the greatest American novel ever written; it is a metaphysical survival manual - the best guidebook there is for a literate man or woman facing an impenetrable unknown: the future of civilization in this storm-tossed 21st century.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I'm free - but I'm also not free because there are millions of young people living in Iran. A filmmaker can only do a little.
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Sometimes I can be misunderstood. I'm really competitive.
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We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
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The basic law of capitalism is you or I, not both you and I.
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The common argument that crime is caused by poverty is a kind of slander on the poor.
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At first, it's unfamiliar, then it strikes root.
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Any partying I did, I did at home. I didn't want to be in the spotlight... There's an easy way to get away from the paparazzi; they're not that difficult to hide from and you don't need to go out for coffee every five minutes.
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When the tech geeks talk, I pay close attention.
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I do secret stand-up shows around New York. I announce and tweet this to nobody - I get onstage and I do a quick five minutes.
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When I was 14, I had no pressure. I was a kid, and I didn't understand all the attention.
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I don't know why people feel that I am snooty. I am not a person who has ever given an interview on image building. I have never been that person, as I am very confident of what I do. People do PR, but I get completely foxed. I don't know how to do it. I stay away from the limelight, as I think my work should speak on my behalf.
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I feel like I'm meant to be a mom.
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The X Games have done night and day for snowboarding and action sports.
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I feel like comedy had a boys'-club label when we were starting.
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At the age of six I wanted to be a cook. At seven I wanted to be Napoleon. And my ambition has been growing steadily ever since.
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Perhaps we should all settle down and think about what's good in the world and what we want to do here. If we find this planet and its history and its story to be sacred, let's preserve and nourish it, and then we can go home at night and say whatever prayers we choose.
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We’re seeking — imperfectly at every turn, no doubt — an incarnational theology, a theology that brings radical good news of great joy for all the people, good news that God loves the world and didn’t send Jesus to condemn it but to save it, good news that God’s wrath is not merely punitive but restorative, good news that the fire of God’s holiness is not bent on eternal torment but always works to purify and refine, good news that where sin abounds, grace abounds all the more.
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People come up to me and say, 'You changed my life.' I don't think I changed anyone's life. I think their life changed while they were listening to the music.
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We are a people in more need of a little character than we are in need of an abundance of knowledge.
