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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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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Plotting is difficult for me, and always has been. I do that before I actually start writing, but I always do characters, and the arc of the story, first... You can't do anything without a story arc. Where is it going to begin, where will it end.
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Watch the History Channel if you want it literal and historically perfect.
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I was born deaf, and I gained my hearing back when I was six months old - it was a miraculous event.
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And it's not only films, I'm pretty unaware of anything that's going on in popular culture right now.
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As a working artist, I became increasingly aware of the patterns we see in the street and in America, becoming globalized in terms of pop culture and global and social outlook.
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When you turn your team upside down and try to figure out what the culture of the team is, you take the greatest risk a team can take.
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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.
