Clementa C. Pinckney Quotes
I always felt God had called me to serve within the church because of what the church stands for. This has always been home.
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I love people with strong convictions, because we are living in a very PC world. You can't crack a joke without it being in the headlines.
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The idea of interdependence is central to Buddhism, which holds that all things come into being through the mutual interactions of various causes and conditions.
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Poverty breeds lack of self-reliance.
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I'm such a fan of Shailene Woodley, so I'm super excited to see all her stuff. She's an awesome actress.
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When you have a limited resource and you have a lot of people wanting that resource, then those who get more justify as to why they got more, and those who get less say they have been treated badly.
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I want the BBC to be a mass market public service broadcaster still funded by the licence fee... and the licence fee is more durable than many people in the commercial sector believe.
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A lot of people go in and have to create their own characters, and they do fine with it.
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I hope that people will see that we don't have to sit by the sidelines and watch as the two major parties limit their choices to slightly different flavors of the status quo. It is, in fact, possible to join the fray, stand up for principles and offer a real alternative.
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All business leaders need to be technologists, as every industry now has a Netflix or an Uber on the horizon, threatening to upend business as usual. Apps are driving this disruption, and every enterprise needs to become an app company.
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A high IQ individual can't deal in an industry that's subjective.
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Almost all our desires, when examined, contain something too shameful to reveal.
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I see genres as generating sets of rules or conventions that are only interesting when they are subverted or used to disguise the author's intent. My own way of doing this is to attempt a sort of whimsical alchemy, whereby seemingly incompatible genres are brought into unlikely partnerships.
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Well, I certainly did not think that I could do worse.
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Today, India is a nuclear weapons state.
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What does 'work' mean in this 21st, ultra-wired century, with its exploding new industries, low barriers to entry and endless possibilities? Is technology making our lives more flexible - or our days more endless?
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is through my books.
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Cue actor platitude, but I've been very fortunate and worked pretty consistently and have felt rather annoyingly grateful that I got to do what I got to do.
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Like at home, I don't wear heels. But everywhere else I go, I wear heels.
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Where consumption is both conspicuous and competitive, humanity will never run out of new wishes. All the while, industry creates new desires that are marketed, in the great fashion paradox, as both novelty and need.
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When we were shooting 'The Book Thief,' I was keeping all these journals. And I remember talking to my mom, really trying to verbalize all the experiences I was having. And I remember my mom saying, 'Ben, reflection is a retroactive process.' When you're going through it, that's the time to just let it wash over you.
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Any audience that gets a laugh out of me gets it while I'm facing them.
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Of course God knew what would happen if they used their freedom the wrong way: apparently He thought it worth the risk.
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I always felt God had called me to serve within the church because of what the church stands for. This has always been home.
