Stanley Hauerwas Quotes

To try to turn Iraq into a liberal democracy is absolutely crazy. Islam has no understanding of the separation between church and state because they don't understand Islam to be a church.

Stanley Hauerwas

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CrazyDemocracyChurchUnderstanding

My agenda is trying to help people live a better life.

Jillian Michaels

LifeLivePeopleBetterHelpTrying

Abdias do Nascimento was the first writer who gave me racial consciousness. It was through his books and writings that I first took in the real weight of race in our society. He was the main influence on me because in my family, race was never an issue.

Joaquim Barbosa

FamilyMeInfluenceSocietyNever

For an international business such as ours, you can't localise without a local. That was a hard lesson for us. We had to be closer, physically present, which is when we put teams on the ground.

Joe Gebbia

BusinessPresentYouLessonHardUs

People don't understand this, but I started very young, and I became very, very successful at a very young age. By the time I was 26 years old, I was a multimillionaire. And I started with nothing. And I was on the road 10, 11 months a year.

Jerry Weintraub

AgeTimePeopleRoadYearYoung

I've always been with God, even in my darkest hour. That is why I say I am alive. I mean, I should have died a number of times.

Andy Dick

GodI AmAliveSayWhyMean

The difference between an author and a horse is that the horse doesn't understand the horse dealer's language.

Max Frisch

LanguageHorseUnderstandDifference

I realise that there's something about fantasy, whether it's written by the Grimm Brothers or J. K. Rowling or Thorne or J. M. Barrie, that it gets closer to the human experience than realism every could.

John Tiffany

ExperienceFantasyHumanSomething

Byrne's Law: In any electrical circuit, appliances and wiring will burn out to protect fuses.

Robert Byrne

LawBurnWillProtectOutCircuit

Pretensions to moral superiority are devastatingly destructive.

Mary Douglas

MoralSuperiorityDestructive

The Beethoven Experience provided the opportunity to solidify the relationship between the Orchestra and me, the Orchestra and me and the public, between all of us and the city of New York, because Beethoven after all is a really amazing point of reference.

Lorin Maazel

OpportunityRelationshipExperience

In order to describe a particular subculture, you might want to portray people who are typical or representative of that subculture; but to dramatize it, to make it an interesting setting for a story, you want to bring someone anomalous into that setting, to see how she conforms to it, and it to her.

Jonathan Dee

PeopleStoryInterestingSomeoneYou

My son, Wolf, was born when I was past 40 and the author of a best-selling novel. That means he has grown up a middle-class child - one who sometimes asks me for stories of my childhood but knows nothing of what it means to grow up poor and afraid. I have worked to make sure of that.

Dorothy Allison

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