Richard Adams Quotes
There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.
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At the age of 13, I felt it was up to me to decide whether I wanted to go to church or be with my mates, and I chose to go to church.
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The interest in the supernatural in a very generic sense and in the spiritual is not in itself a factor that helps the communication of the Christian faith.
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The history of business has shown that companies usually only regulate themselves if they're forced to by legislation, or out of self-interest - often in the shape of a marketable message that will help sell more products.
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I have confidence in mining. I see exciting opportunities in it.
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I don't get far enough into a boring book to hate it.
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Sound is a huge influence on peoples' attention.
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The health effects of air pollution imperil human lives. This fact is well-documented.
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Like I said, everybody has got something they have to deal with health-wise, and everybody's human. I should look after myself better, but so should everybody, right?
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The thing I love about being an actor is the ability to travel and experience new cultures.
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I work very deliberately, with a plan. But sometimes I come to a point that I planned as the end and it needs softening. Ending a novel is almost like putting a child to sleep - it can't be done abruptly.
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My worldview, my philosophy, my attitudes, my relationships, my parenting, my marriage - everything has been transformed by my relationship with Christ.
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Many premature babies are never given a chance to make it out of the hospital.
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Accidents will occur in the best regulated families; and in families not regulated by that pervading influence which sanctifies while it enhances the-a-I would say, in short, by the influence of Woman, in the lofty character of Wife, they may be expected with confidence, and must be borne with philosophy.
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Human beings are 70% water and with some the rest is colagen
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Manga uses Japanese traditional structures in how to teach the student and to transmit a very direct message. You learn from the teacher by watching from behind his back. The whole teacher-master thing is part of Asian culture, I think.
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For people who have health insurance, we can provide health insurance reforms that make the insurance they have more secure. And we can do that mostly by using money that every expert agrees is being wasted and is currently in the existing health care system.
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Meditation practice is regarded as a good and in fact excellent way to overcome warfare in the world; our own warfare as well as greater warfare.
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Difficulties can be a valuable tool in our pursuit of perfection. Adversity need have no necessary connection with failure.
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Being born in Jamaica, race was never an issue. It was always about the type of person I wanted to be, not the colour of my skin.
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There are a lot of people who can slide on talent their whole lives; they're just naturally gifted. I've never considered myself one of those people. I enjoy outworking the opposition.
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A lot of times when I've been offered film series and stuff, if they shoot in Los Angeles, I lose interest.
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It's so mental how I looked in the '90s. The fact that I thought my ponytail was a good thing - it was just terrible. Cutting it off was so monumental.
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Writers of novels live in a strange world where what's made up is as important as what's real.
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There is nothing that cuts you down to size like coming to some strange and marvelous place where no one even stops to notice that you stare about you.
