Miroslav Volf Quotes
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Some day you will be wheeled in for a heart bypass operation, and a surgeon will be the person who is now behind the counter when you renew your car registration at the department of motor vehicles.
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I never got into politics for it to be a career.
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The simpler I keep things, the better I play.
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America is a poem in our eyes; its ample geography dazzles the imagination, and it will not wait long for metres.
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My real dream is that everybody will see their self-interest tied up with someone else, whether or not they see them, and see that as an opportunity for growing closer together as a culture and as a world.
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Getting into Sundance is such a big platform for a director.
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If you're looking for immediate rewards, you're only looking for the money.
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Hip-hop isn't as complex as a woman is.
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Know your priorities and identify the five powerful action steps that you intend to take to move your initiatives forward each day. If you go to a tree with an ax and take five whacks at the tree every day, it doesn't matter if it's an oak or a redwood; eventually, the tree has to fall down.
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I always tell young athletes the same thing, 'Wherever you go, whatever you do, what must your top priority be? Running.'
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To hear of a thousand deaths in war is terrible, and we 'know' that it is. But as it registers on our hearts, it is not more terrible than one death fully imagined.
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I'm someone who likes plowing new ground, then walking away from it. I get bored easily. For me, the big thrill comes with the discovering.
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Shakespeare lets us see real people undergoing real processes, with real feelings.
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The thought of somebody pulling and cutting around my face gives me stomach ache. Plastic surgery would be so painful. What if it doesn't look good? What if they made a mistake? I couldn't do it.
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In army, I went to Kashmir and did well, which was a challenge. In sports, I went to Olympics at a time when no one believed that we can actually win. Coming into politics was also a challenge as I wanted to push the youth to achieve gold in various fields of life.
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The greedy man is he who habitually eats too much, knowing that he is injuring his bodily health thereby, and this is a vice to which not the gourmet but the gourmand is a slave.
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When God created you, He went to great lengths to make you exactly the way He wanted you to be. You are His ultimate work of art.
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People said when I started, 'Why don't you just copy your father's style?' I had to be myself, singing my songs in my own way.
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It's all about quality of life and finding a happy balance between work and friends and family.
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I would rather be remembered by a song than by a victory.
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The influence of Paris, for instance, is now minimal. Yet a lot is written about Paris fashion.
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Sensing us, the trees tremble in their sleep, The living leaves recoil before our fires, Baring to us war-charred and broken branches, And seeing theirs, we for our own destruction weep.
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Theology is not only about understanding the world; it is about mending the world.
