Arthur Peacocke Quotes
For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
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We were talking about how old quarterbacks can't throw before 10 am... Practice starts too early for us. Wake me up in the middle of the night and I can throw. I can throw anytime.
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I would love it if people could look at chubby folks with all of our curves, bumps and ridges and just say 'She's beautiful' just like that. You don't have to get on a treadmill as long as your blood pressure is under control and you eat healthy, God bless.
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It's funny how a chubby kid can just be having fun, and people call it entertainment!
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If I am honest, my food is actually quite far removed from both the food of my mother and my father.
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It's always fun to immerse yourself in a different time period.
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Now, everybody knows my music. So that's really cool. A lot of kids know it. Now, when I go to a sports game, everybody knows my name.
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Whatever the situation at hand, that's what I'm dealing with and trying to be true to it in that moment.
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I shall have a beautiful dream tonight. I also wish everyone to have a beautiful dream.
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There are millions of people who consume music illegally every month. Just getting them into a legal service will make the music industry way bigger than it's ever been before.
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I am not ever in the business of making anyone feel bad.
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This particular nurse said, Cancer cells are those which have forgotten how to die. I was so struck by this statement.
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Nobody believed in the success of the Internet.
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My philosophy was, if I just do good work, someone will like it enough to employ me. It never made me famous. And I'm way, way too old now, mate. That boat's sailed.
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I actually have more shoes than anyone will ever know.
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People always make the mistake of calling an idea small or stupid because they don't understand how it's going to evolve.
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The two things that can hurt you are if you need money or if you need fame. Those are the things that can be your Achilles heel. But if you don't need money and you don't need fame, then you're free.
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Even if I flop, I still qualified for the Games, and that was my goal. My target was to be at an Olympics for the third time with people I like.
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I don't like to meddle in my private affairs.
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I have never been able to separate - nor have I wanted to - my personal love and desire for truth, passion, and understanding from my lyrics.
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If historical experience could teach us anything, it would be that private property is inextricably linked with civilization.
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I fell through the holes in the educational system. But education is still a way to change a life.
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The great subversive works of children's literature suggest that there are other views of human life besides those of the shopping mall and the corporation. They mock current assumptions and express the imaginative, unconventional, noncommercial view of the world in its simplest and purest form. They appeal to the imaginative, questioning, rebellious child within all of us, renew our instinctive energy, and act as a force for change. This is why such literature is worthy of our attention and will endure long after more conventional tales have been forgotten.
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I have talked to kids who have stopped doing these things on the weekend because they don't want to get caught. Obviously, you can't get every kid, but if you can save at least one life, to me that's priceless.
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For many decades now - and certainly during my adult life in academe - the Western intellectual world has not been convinced that theology is a pursuit that can be engaged in with intellectual honesty and integrity.
