Os Guinness Quotes
I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.
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It takes three to make a child.
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I don't mind having these relatives. I'll give them a little, since they all prayed for my victory.
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I was in a mountain biking accident and broke my sternum about three months before my unit was supposed to deploy to Iraq, and it's such a close-knit community that the idea of not getting to go is hugely jarring, so I tried to get put back in training and wound up injuring it worse.
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Before I liked to write, I liked to type. I remember visiting my grandmother Adele in Ponce Inlet, Florida, when I was three years old, and she had an IBM electric typewriter.
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I give the children education.
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We can't afford to go lose two, three in a row. We've got to keep climbing and getting wins.
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I went with Lionel Hampton for three years. Out of that came a trip to Europe.
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I had an unhealthy obsession with 'Only Fools and Horses.' I still have to watch an episode with my brother every two or three weeks.
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I'll give you my answer calmly and sensibly, my final answer. My final answer is finally no. The answer is no! Absolutely and finally no! Finally and positively no! No! No! No! N - O!
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I've been close to two or three couples, gay and straight, who have been together for 45 years.
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If you are an Arabic-speaking, Greek-Orthodox going to a French school it makes you deeply sceptical if you have to listen to three different accounts of the Crusades - one from the Muslim side, one from the Greek side and one from the Catholic side.
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One out of three jobs in Washington is tied to trade.
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I taught sixth grade for three and a half years.
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I called Daley Thompson after the Games of '84, when he won. He'd had this phenomenal decathlon for nine events - and then he went out there and jogged the 1,500 meters and missed the world record by, like, three points.
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With a mini series you can give the story a proper sense of pacing, a proper sense of closure.
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A politician should have three hats. One for throwing into the ring, one for talking through, and one for pulling rabbits out of if elected.
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I have a million acquaintances but just two or three true friends. I can't hide anything from them.
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My children have been learning lessons about entrepreneurship since they were in kindergarten, and these lessons are paying off: even though they are only 22, 18, and 15, they have already collectively launched three nonprofit organizations and several new businesses.
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Oh Lord, give me chastity, but do not give it yet.
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Never give up, have the passion. Don't be afraid.
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Truly compassionate action arises spontaneously without thought and is carried out in real action with no anticipation of reward and, indeed, no concept of a doer of that action.
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I am Parisian. I don't love the French.
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I think that if your approach is one where you don't want to alienate anybody, you're going to have to soften the viewpoint or the information that you're offering to such an extent that it doesn't have the power to make any difference. You have to take that risk.
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I give lectures on globalization. I have lived on three continents. I have no quarrel with a global consciousness.
