Miroslav Volf Quotes
There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics.
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Listen: our culture is saturated with irony whether we know it or not.
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Journalists write because they have nothing to say, and have something to say because they write.
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Knitting not only relaxes me, it also brings a feeling of being at home.
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A lot of the stuff about white-supremacist groups was very family-friendly: 'We just love our people.' One the surface, you go, 'Gee, what's wrong with loving your people?' But when you love your people to the exclusion of everything else that's remotely different, that's when you get into trouble.
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The mistake of the West was to put the Sauds on the throne of Saudi Arabia and give them control of the world's oil fortune, which they then used to propagate Wahhabi Islam.
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Anytime I'm involved with anything that's well-received, it's a surprise to me.
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There are people who are very resourceful, at being remorseful, and who apparently feel that the best way to make friends is to do something terrible and then make amends.
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This scepticism is the same scepticism I heard a generation ago in the USSR when few thought that a democratic transformation behind the iron curtain was possible.
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It's a sin to be tired.
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Ronald Isley is a musical genius.
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I want anything I produce to be good for people kind enough to try it, but it's the momentum and process I enjoy most.
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If you want to do anything, do it now, without compromise or concession, because you have only one life.
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An actress must be a woman whose emotional perceptions are true, and to make them so, she must have a fine contempt for any art or thought that betrays them for something false.
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Someone's energy and aura and soul are so much more important - they don't compare to what you have on.
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Here is our opportunity and our challenge. If the nuclear powers are prepared to declare a truce, let us seize the moment to strengthen the institutions and procedures which will serve as the means for the pacific settlement of disputes among men.
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I claim the right not to incriminate myself.
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It is clear from all these data that the interests of teenagers are not focused around studies, and that scholastic achievement is at most of minor importance in giving status or prestige to an adolescent in the eyes of other adolescents.
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I love movies that are saying things that people might find odd at times. I don't find them odd at all. They give me comfort.
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Different is good. Different is great!
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War can be so impersonal yet when we put a name, a face, a place and match it to families, then war is not impersonal.
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I'm a children's book writer, and my wife is a musician. We've raised a family on income from songs, performances and books.
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The man or nation of high culture may acknowledge to great lengths the restraints imposed by conventions and honour, but beyond a certain point, primitive will or desire cannot be curbed.
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Culture is to know the best that has been said and thought in the world.
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There is no more effective way to radicalize American Muslim youth than for political leaders to make public displays of prejudice against all Muslims. Suspicion will undermine their sense of identification with America and alienate some from both the culture and from politics.
