Anna Howard Shaw Quotes

Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.

Anna Howard Shaw

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• I don't get controversial, I don't get political and I don't tell you what to do with your life. I just go out there and tell some stories, and people can relate.

  

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• The products in my bathroom are pretty minimal. Issey Miyake makes great cologne, and I use everything from Zirh, especially their shave scream. I really like Mario Badesco aftershave, too. It's amazing.

  

  Sam Bradford
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• 'Lovejoy' has a special place in my heart because it was through my efforts that the series first came to the screen.

  

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• I personally think Beyonce's a strong feminist. What she's done in music and for women is unprecedented. I love her. She definitely makes me feel like more of a woman.

  

  Sam Smith
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• I was deep in the zone of practicing almost constantly.

  

  Pat Metheny
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• Urban America is like a foreign country in a sense.

  

  Magic Johnson
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• Instantaneous and mass communication is the mother of mass naivety. Should we then lose hope? Is there any hope? But to lose hope is as dangerous as to nurture false hope. Where then can we find hope that is responsible?

  

  Tariq Ramadan
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• I feel there is no shortage of real interesting women's roles. But I found them and did all of them just now.

  

  Maggie Gyllenhaal
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• Mike Leigh taught me about making choices - as an actor, you choose between being honest and clever, and with Mike, it's always about being honest. I learned how to behave on a film set from Jim Broadbent. He was a great example of someone with a fantastic career who kept his feet on the ground.

  

  Eddie Marsan
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• Any threat to the health and safety of a child in any school or classroom is unacceptable.

  

  Kate Brown
  • School
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• I claim that human mind or human society is not divided into watertight compartments called social, political and religious. All act and react upon one another.

  

  Mahatma Gandhi
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• I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

  

  Karen Armstrong
  • Religion
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• I was called to audition for a play when I was very young, following which I continued to act as well as write and direct. When I moved to Delhi and joined Hindu College, theatre became a very big part of my life.

  

  Imtiaz Ali
  • Life
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• I had to accept the fact that sometimes things happen that are out of our hands.

  

  Katey Sagal
  • Sometimes
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• I've taken clowns into the war in Bosnia, the refugee camps of Kosovo, and none of those are any more important than clowning in a subway or an elevator or just walking down the street.

  

  Patch Adams
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• I wish to add my mite towards expounding & interpreting the Almighty, & his laws & works, for the most effective use of mankind; and certainly, I should feel it no small glory if I were enabled to be one of his most noted prophets (using this word in my own peculiar sense) in this world.

  

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• I was really ambitious, so I was innovative. I was one of the first DJs to do live calls, 'cause I found this phone device that would pick up other people's voices.

  

  Idris Elba
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  • Live

• My father kept me busy from dawn to dusk when I was a kid. When I wasn't pitching hay, hauling corn or running a tractor, I was heaving a baseball into his mitt behind the barn... If all the parents in the country followed his rule, juvenile delinquency would be cut in half in a year's time.

  

  Bob Feller
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• Mark just doesn't make mistakes. If you watch him, he's mistake-free.

  

  Joe Gibbs
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• When civilizations collide, it usually isn't the more primitive one that prevails.

  

  Rick Yancey
  • Primitive
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• I can truly say - and this in virtue of the whole structure of my thought - that I now feel more indissolubly bound to the hierarchical Church and to the Christ of the Gospel than ever before in my life. Never has Christ seemed to me more real, more personal or more immense.

  

  Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
  • Life
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  • Church

• In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it is safe to say, this property will reach a sum exceeding $3 billion. I would suggest the taxation of all property equally.

  

  Ulysses S. Grant
  • Believe
  • Church
  • Religion

• Before I had crossed the threshold of my church I was made to realize that I was shepherd of a divided flock.

  

  Anna Howard Shaw
  • Church