Christopher Allsopp Quotes
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I'm not executing my pitches. I'm not commanding my fastball, and I get behind in the count. When I try to throw strikes, I'm getting hurt. That's not the way I pitch.
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In good speaking, should not the mind of the speaker know the truth of the matter about which he is to speak.
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Laughter is involuntary. If it's funny you laugh.
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I just love being in the U.K.
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Keep not standing fixed and rooted. Briskly venture, briskly roam.
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Time and time again, history has proved that the conservatives are right and the liberals are wrong.
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All human activities are equivalent … and … all are on principle doomed to failure.
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I've discovered my Jewishness late in life. And I've really enjoyed exploring that world.
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My all-time favorite rock and roll players were Scotty Moore, Chuck Berry and Franny Beecher, and I listened to the country playing of Merle Travis.
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I'm getting rather hoarse, I fear, After so much reciting: So, if you don't object, my dear, We'll try a glass of bitter beer - I think it looks inviting.
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Doubt everything. Doubt everything at least once. What you decide to keep, you'll be able to be confident of. And what you decide to ditch, you will replace with what your instincts tell you is true.
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I've been exploring gender performativity in the Gulf since I was a teenager. I'm not a gender anthropologist, but I feel like there's an extreme binary between femininity and masculinity in the Gulf. From a young age, I knew I didn't want to be part of it. Gender is a huge gray area, and the problem with defined roles is that they cover up undefined ones.
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When your views are truly contrarian, they are inevitably uncomfortable. Courage and the ability to withstand pain are required.
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Repentance is a realization that what God wants from you and what you want from God are not going to be achieved by doing the same old things, thinking the same old thoughts. Repentance is a decision to follow Jesus Christ and become his pilgrim in the path of peace. Repentance is the most practical of all words and the most practical of all acts. It is a feet-on-the-ground-kind-of-word. It puts a person in touch with the reality that God creates.
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All your dreams are made / When you're chained to the mirror and the razor blade.
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A tree trunk the size of a man grows from a blade as thin as a hair. A tower nine stories high is built from a small heap of earth.
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Every blade has two edges; he who wounds with one wounds himself with the other.
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The blade itself incites to deeds of violence.
