Adam Fletcher Quotes
You confuse freedom with having no responsibilities. But that’s not freedom. That’s just selfishness.
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I like to sit down every day and not know where the book is going. I have no idea where the book is going to go or how it's going to end as I'm writing it.
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I don't like possessions.
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Some people call it the 'Al Jazeera spirit' - courage, re-thinking authority, giving a voice to the voiceless. We have never been favored by the authority. The human being is the center of our editorial policy. We are not a TV station that rushes after stars, big names, press conferences, hand-shake journalism.
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The history of Germany is not the history of a nation, but of a race. It has little unity, therefore; it is complicated, broken, and attached on all sides to the histories of other countries.
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I'm writing from a place of - a center of authenticity, somewhere that only I know how to write from.
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Let me tell you, 'The Reader' was not glamorous for me in terms of the body-hair maintenance.
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A lovely nook of forest scenery, or a grand rock, like a beautiful woman, depends for much of its attractiveness upon the attendance sense of freedom from whatever is low; upon a sense of purity and of romance.
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Obviously, you need talent to do well in your sport, but I think hard work goes a long way. You need to be lucky within the sport too, though. In badminton, you can benefit from good draws and people getting injured.
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Man, double-faced by nature, is placed by Revelation under a sharp, precise external rule, controlling his actions and his thoughts.
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People don't know this, but early in your career, you don't just glide on to The Tonight Show.
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Of course democracy is good, but it is a process, not a prescription.
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Union gives strength.
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Time is a dream, he thinks, a destroying dream;It lays great cities in dust, it fills the seas;It covers the face of beauty, and tumbles walls.Where was the woman he loved? Where was his youth?Where was the dream that burned his brain like fire?Even a dream grows grey at last and falls.
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There were episodes where I would wear seven or eight outfits. It took a lot of time to get those together. What the character wears is very essential to how I create the character.
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If in previous decades large historic events drew people together and oriented them toward collective action, the recent double trend toward greater choice but less security leads the young to see their lives in more individual terms. Big events collectivize. Little events atomize.
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It is enough for me to pick up but a straw from the ground for the love of God.
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The people say I have to change? Well, the people have to tell me what I should do to change.
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The biggest trading partner of the United States is not West Germany or Japan, it's right here.
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I was surprised how relevant the Moses story was to contemporary American debates - from our ongoing debate about values, to our role as champions of freedom, to our place as a country that welcome immigrants.
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Democracy and freedom began bouncing all over the world like bad checks.
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Before anything else, preparation is the key to success.
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Now you watch reality TV, you watch them in all those pools or Jacuzzis and I say to myself was I that stupid? But that was me then.
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The one true mark of a saint of God is the inner creativity that flows from being totally surrendered to Jesus Christ.
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You confuse freedom with having no responsibilities. But that’s not freedom. That’s just selfishness.
