Jim Wallis Quotes

I met the president when he was president-elect at a meeting in Austin. He spoke of his faith. He spoke of his desire for a compassionate conservatism, for a faith-based initiative that would do something for poor people.

Jim Wallis

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When Keats says: 'Axioms in philosophy are not axioms until they are proved upon our pulses', what he means is that we don't necessarily believe what a poem is saying if it comes out and tells us in an absolutely head-on, in-your-face way; we only believe it to be true if we feel it to be true.

Andrew Motion

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I'm manipulating the audience. I'm making sure people sympathize.

Melinda Clarke

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Most climatologists agree that, at best, global warming is a theory about future climactic conditions and cannot be proven based upon the historic record.

Mike Pence

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Breaking news: there is only one Missy.

Missy Elliott

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The model of getting the consumer to come to you is old, and the new model is how can you get to the consumer on their terms, in ways they want to engage in. How people are choosing to interface with content is very different. You've got to marry different platforms.

Mindy Grossman

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I think I've failed every test I've ever taken. If there was a failure I would have been it.

Lisa Marie Presley

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Nobody's ever made a film in the history of cinema where they weren't expecting some return on their dough.

Johnny Depp

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Nobody works harder than me in the ring; no one steals the show more often, and no one gets better reactions for a guy who's not even part of huge storylines.

Dolph Ziggler

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My family background was heavily slanted toward business and seafaring matters.

William Standish Knowles

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I don't want to shut down government.

Susan Collins

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President Obama is highly concerned with education. He's a champion on early-childhood development strategies. So I like the work he's doing, and I support it, and I realise that he's one of very few political leaders around the world that actually has early-childhood development strategise at the top of his agenda.

Shakira

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But I think the only thing that annoys me about that is if I suddenly find someone on commercial radio or something like that, mimicking my voice or actions and trying to promote a product and pretending it's me doing it.

Richie Benaud

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