William Cameron Townsend Quotes
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
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First of all, I try to be a positive role model.
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His style has the desperate jauntiness of an orchestra fiddling away for dear life on a sinking ship.
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I've matured since joining United, on and off the field.
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Free speech means the right to shout 'theatre' in a crowded fire.
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In the Army, because the stakes are so high - right? - you can't just be a yes-man and say, 'Great idea, boss!' if you don't believe it - right? - because lives are at stake. And the commanders that I've worked for, they want frank assessments; they want criticism and feedback.
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I've been booed on stages. I'm a little bit tougher than to walk off a stage because someone says something ugly.
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My sister is an ER doctor, and my brother is a teacher.
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All I can tell them is pick a good one and sock it. I get back to the dugout and they ask me what it was I hit and I tell them I don't know except it looked good.
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It's head and heart. I like to feed both. I always wanted to be an actor. But the cultural-intellectual side of things has always excited me. I wouldn't want to let it go.
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We all have our place in this diverse Spain.
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To copy others is necessary, but to copy oneself is pathetic.
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I love to fly so much.
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I've been in so many love triangles on TV and in real life.
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My books may highlight corruption, brutality and venality, but they also show that if these things come to light, there is rectification. The voiceless do have a voice; democratic mechanisms and accountability do exist.
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We assume people we know can't be serial killers.
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Everything we earn we need as a reserve.
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I'm Irish and always will be, but America has taught me so much. Maybe it's here in the U.S. that we find a healing, for in the broader melting pot we get to look at some of these self-destructive attributes that we bring to bear upon our own quarrels and begin to solve them in ways other than just splitting apart.
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Nearly everywhere monarchs raised themselves further above the level of the greatest nobles and buttressed their new pretensions to respect and authority with cannons and taxation.
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The artist who uses the least of what is called imagination will be the greatest.
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We have the best government that money can buy.
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Being at the Apollo, I was always starstruck.
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The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
