William Cameron Townsend Quotes
The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
Quotes to Explore
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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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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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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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Also, I knew that the impact of Motorcycle Diaries was going to be so resonant for all of us who went through the experience of making it that I didn't want to do anything that could reflect it.
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Governing a great nation is like cooking a small fish - too much handling will spoil it.
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Leisure is the Mother of Philosophy.
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It's hard to say this about a guy like Eddie Van Halen, one of the greatest guitar players who ever lived, but he's really limited to a style and they're locked into it.
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I was being hated for about 40 or 50 years by the whole world, but it did not destroy me, and it did not ruin my health. And the reason is because I just did not answer them. I had my own life.
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I grew up in such a melting pot. There's more ethnicities in Queens than there is in any place on the planet. So you grow up knowing things about other cultures.
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Time is what death needs to grow people in.
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The greatest missionary is the Bible in the mother tongue. It needs no furlough and is never considered a foreigner.
